It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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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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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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