Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
RAINER MARIA RILKEWho has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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The only journey is the one within.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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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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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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