Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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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.
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