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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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