I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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