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"35 Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 4 December 1875. Died: 29 December 1926 | Novelist | Poet |

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

I Secret Things Alone
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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.

Every EveryTime Give Happens
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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.

Always Asked Away Beginners
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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.

Any Art Been Danger
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Beautiful Brave Dragons Lives
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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.

Between Bond Each Highest
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Bearing Creator Deepest Experience
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Being Deepest Everything Help
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

Beings Each Faces Human
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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

Apart Before Curtain Falling
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

Good Marriages May Pleasant
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

Bed Belongs Four Legs
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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.

Able Act Am Anything
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Action Against Fear Had
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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.

Another Being Difficult Human
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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.

Belief Believe Cultivate Feelings
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
Begin Blood Mind Soaring
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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.

Being Emotion Emotions Gather
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Always Believe Happen Life
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Along Answers Day Distant
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Defeated Greater Life Purpose
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Child Earth Knows Like
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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.

Another Dog Fact He
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The only journey is the one within.
Journey Only Within Self
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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.

About Course Grown Know
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
Breath Different Sing Truly
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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.

Blooming Colors Everything Heart
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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.

Blame Call Creator Daily
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Consists Each Greet Love
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

Attack Get Like Love
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Art Artist Been Danger
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Before Future Happens Itself
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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.

Difficult Good More Must
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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.

Been Conversation Had Last
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Been Full Never New
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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes & Sayings