One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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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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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 want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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