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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEHe 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.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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