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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEMore belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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