Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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.
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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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