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.
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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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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