It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
RAINER MARIA RILKEMore belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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 ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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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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