Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
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And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.
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May I keep this book forever. May this book and this body outlast my love. May this book and this body love me as I love its length, its breadth, its thickness, its text, its skin, its letters, its punctuation, its quiet and its noisy pages.
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Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.
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Der Abend wechselt langsam die Gewänder, die ihm ein Rand von alten Bäumen hält.