I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
RAINER MARIA RILKEI hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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 more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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