The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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 the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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 purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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