(Fitz and the Fool)

Gorgeous and beloved

(that is, steps out of us towards others) we shall feel related and close to it in our inmost hearts. And that is necessary."

"The quieter, the more patient and open we are in our sadness, the deeper and more unerringly the new will penetrate into us, the better we shall accuire it, the more it will be *our* rate, and when one day in the future it 'takes place'...

"And what matters is to live everything. *Live* the questions for now."

"... be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and love *the questions themselves* like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue. Do not now strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given to you because you have not been able to live them."

"There is nothing less apt to touch the work of art than critical words: all we end up with there is more or less felicitous misunderstandings."