There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
RAINER MARIA RILKEPerhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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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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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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The only journey is the one within.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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