Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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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 consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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