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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAll 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.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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