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Now for some heartwork.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Age: 51 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 4
Died: 1926
Died: December 29
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René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke
René Maria Cäsar Rilke
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Rainer Maria Rielke
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Rainer Mariyah Rilḳeh
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Love the questions themselves...Live the questions now and have confidence that someday far into the future, [I will live my] way into the answer.
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Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.
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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 highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.
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Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?
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Live the questions now.
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Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.
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Learn to love the questions themselves.
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Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.
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Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation. You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold, comes at long last over everyone.
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I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.
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a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
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You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand it will not let you fall.
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I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.
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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 of that precious nourishing love from which flowers and children have their strength and which could help all human beings if they would take it without doubting.
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And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.
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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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She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall And clears it for a different celebration.
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I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.
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