It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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