Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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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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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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