Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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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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