Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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