Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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 future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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 want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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