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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAll the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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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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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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The only journey is the one within.
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