Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
RAINER MARIA RILKEMore belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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 consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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