The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
RAINER MARIA RILKEA person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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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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