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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAll the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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