A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
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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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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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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