And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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