The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
RAINER MARIA RILKELove consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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The only journey is the one within.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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