Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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Schon ist mein Blick am Hügel, dem besonnten, dem Wege, den ich kaum begann, voran. So fasst uns das, was wir nicht fassen konnten, voller Erscheinung, aus der Ferne an-und wandelt uns, auch wenn wirs nicht erreichen, in jenes, das wir, kaum es ahnend, sind; ein Zeichen weht, erwidernd unserm Zeichen... Wir aber spüren nur den Gegenwind.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
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Aus unendlichen Sehnsüchten steigen endliche Taten wie schwache Fontänen, die sich zeitig und zitternd neigen. Aber, die sich uns sonst verschweigen, unsere fröhlichen Kräfte-zeigen sich in diesen tanzenden Tränen.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, 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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust, Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel Lidern.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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 the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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He was a poet and hated the approximate.
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When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.