Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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 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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