Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

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Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

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The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

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I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.

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Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

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If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

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And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

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