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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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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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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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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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