Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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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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Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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