There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Surely 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.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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