One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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The only journey is the one within.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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