More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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 ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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