The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

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There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

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