This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
RAINER MARIA RILKESpring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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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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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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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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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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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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