A wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
RAINER MARIA RILKEIt is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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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 future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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 deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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