One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
RAINER MARIA RILKETruly to sing, that is a different breath.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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 are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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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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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 purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The only journey is the one within.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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