More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
RAINER MARIA RILKEIt is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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