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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEIt is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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