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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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