There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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