The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
RAINER MARIA RILKENo great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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 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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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