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.
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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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The only journey is the one within.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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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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A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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