Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The only journey is the one within.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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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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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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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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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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