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Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and nothing can reach them so little as criticism. Only love can grasp them and keep hold of them and be just to them. Always trust yourself and your own feelings as opposed to any such analysis, review or introduction; if you should be wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will lead you slowly
... See moreRainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to
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Steven Kotler • Last Tango in Cyberspace: A Novel
An old man, I want only peace. The things of this world mean nothing. I know no good way to live and I can’t stop getting lost in my thoughts, my ancient forests. The wind that waves the pines loosens my belt.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
Rainer Maria Rilke
nada poderá perturbá-lo de modo mais veemente do que olhar para fora e aguardar dali a resposta a questões que talvez só possam ser respondidas pelo seu sentimento mais íntimo, nos seus momentos mais tranquilos.
Rainer Maria Rilke • Cartas a um jovem poeta (Portuguese Edition)
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the
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