The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
RAINER MARIA RILKEA 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.
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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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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