Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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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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