No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
RAINER MARIA RILKELove is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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 only journey is the one within.
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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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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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