One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
RAINER MARIA RILKELet life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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A wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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