The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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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 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 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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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