The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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