Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
RAINER MARIA RILKEEverything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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