More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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 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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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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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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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