One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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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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Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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