Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe only journey is the one within.
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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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