There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
RAINER MARIA RILKEOnce the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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