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.
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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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The only journey is the one within.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each 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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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