There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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