I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
RAINER MARIA RILKETruly to sing, that is a different breath.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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The only journey is the one within.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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