He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
RAINER MARIA RILKEA person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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