It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
RAINER MARIA RILKEBelieve that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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