The only journey is the one within.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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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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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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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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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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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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