For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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