The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
RAINER MARIA RILKELive your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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The only journey is the one within.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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