This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
RAINER MARIA RILKEMore belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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 only journey is the one within.
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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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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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 the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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