It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
RAINER MARIA RILKEFor one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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 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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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