The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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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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The only journey is the one within.
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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