Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
RAINER MARIA RILKENo great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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