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.
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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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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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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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