Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAnd now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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A wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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