| Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. |
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- Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| Truly to sing, that is a different breath. |
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- Rainer Maria Rilke |
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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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- Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. |
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- Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well. |
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- Rainer Maria Rilke |
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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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- Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us. |
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- Rainer Maria Rilke |
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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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- Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. |
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- Rainer Maria Rilke |
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