There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
RAINER MARIA RILKEEverything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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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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The only journey is the one within.
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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 am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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