Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
RAINER MARIA RILKELive your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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