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.
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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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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