The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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