Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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The only journey is the one within.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Irony: Do not let yourself be governed by it, especially not in unproductive moments. In productive ones try to make use of it as one more means of seizing life.
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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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A tree ascended there. Oh pure transendence! Oh Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear! And all things hushed. Yet even in that silence a new beginning, beckoning, change appeared.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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Die nächste Flut verwischt den Weg im Watt, und alles wird auf allen Seiten gleich; die kleine Insel draußen aber hat die Augen zu; verwirrend kreist der Deichum ihre Wohner, die in einem Schlaf geboren werden, drin sie viele Welten verwechseln schweigend, denn sie reden selten, und jeder Satz ist wie ein Epitaph
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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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If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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.