There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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