I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
RAINER MARIA RILKELove consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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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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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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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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The only journey is the one within.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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