For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
RAINER MARIA RILKEOnce the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each 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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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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