The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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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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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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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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