I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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