Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.Rainer Maria Rilke
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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