The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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High-divers and jugglers of zeal!
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With youths she walks in silence.
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Why is it that I am always neighbor
to those lost ones who are forced to sing
and to say: Life is infinitely heavier
than the heaviness of all things.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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