More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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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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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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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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