Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
RAINER MARIA RILKEOne had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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 only journey is the one within.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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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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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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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.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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