The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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