The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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 future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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