Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere 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.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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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 more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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The only journey is the one within.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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