There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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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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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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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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