Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
RAINER MARIA RILKEHe 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.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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