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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEWho has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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