One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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