I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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 ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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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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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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