And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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