Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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 consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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