For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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