Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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 deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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