There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
RAINER MARIA RILKELive your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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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.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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