It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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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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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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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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