Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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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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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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