It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAnd now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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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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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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