Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
RAINER MARIA RILKESurely 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.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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