One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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The only journey is the one within.
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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 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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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