Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
RAINER MARIA RILKENo great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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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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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 deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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