He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe only journey is the one within.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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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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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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