I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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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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