• All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  German poet 1875-1926
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. emotions
2. distorts
3. impure
4. seizes
5. being

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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. by : Rainer Maria Rilke

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