Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
RAINER MARIA RILKEPerhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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