Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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There 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.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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