I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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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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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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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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