And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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