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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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