The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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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 quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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 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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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