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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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Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own.
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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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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.
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Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.
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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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Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
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the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense.
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You must change your life.
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The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
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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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[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.
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And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who?
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There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.
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Live the questions now.
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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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Space for the Spirit to breathe.
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If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.
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