“Silence. You must learn that art, it is the only way to survive.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter to Maria Issayev written c. July 1855
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“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours
“I want everything quiet and simple. For me: walking barefoot, sitting still, reading, listening to stories and now and then telling some myself. Eating fruit, drinking milk, longing to create, but with patience and many insights.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé witten c. March 1904
“Silence. You must learn that art, it is the only way to survive.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter to Maria Issayev written c. July 1855
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— Rainer Maria Rilke
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“…Things I hold most dear: music, nature, poetry, solitude.”
— Marina Tsvetayeva in a letter to Boris Pasternak, from Letters: Summer 1926 - Boris Pasternak Marina Tsvetayeva Rainer Maria Rilke (New York Review Books, 2001)
“I believe in a world where impossible things happen. Where love can outstrip brutality, can neutralize it, as though it never was, or transform it into something new and more beautiful.”
— Carmen Maria Machado, from “Mothers”, Her Body & Other Parties: Stories
““All things have disappeared from me, I can only recognize the sky””
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Book of Images; “Storm,”
“But for me the world collapses completely every moment, inside my blood.”
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Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Princess Marie von Thurn; December 17. 1912.
“I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them.”
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