The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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