The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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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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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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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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