For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
RAINER MARIA RILKESurely 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.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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