The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
RAINER MARIA RILKEI am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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