Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
RAINER MARIA RILKEI hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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