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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEIt is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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 ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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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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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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