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most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.
– Rainer Maria Rilke

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  1. Whoever you are, go out into the evening,leaving your room, of which you know every bit;your house is the last before the infinite,whoever you are. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  2. Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  3. Keep dreaming,Keep hoping,Keep lovingKeep giving,keep motivating,Keep forgiving,Keep praying,Keep tithing,Keep sharing your testimony. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  4. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  5. I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  6. Oh hours of childhood,when behind each shape more than the past appearedand what streamed out before us was not the f – Rainer Maria Rilke
  7. Beauty is only the start of bearable terror. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  8. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  9. Our heart always transcends us. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  10. Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  11. And the heart has become so tired, and the longing so vast. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  12. Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  13. May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  14. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  15. Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  16. The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  17. Wishes are memories coming from our future! – Rainer Maria Rilke
  18. perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys – Rainer Maria Rilke
  19. It seems to him there area thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  20. I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  21. It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  22. Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  23. Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  24. Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  25. No, my life is not this precipitous hourthrough which you see me passing at a run. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  26. Art is childhood. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  27. It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  28. 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. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  29. But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  30. 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. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  31. Never forget that solitude is my lot … I implore those who love me to love my soli – Rainer Maria Rilke
  32. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  33. I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  34. At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  35. Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  36. Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save you. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  37. Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save you. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  38. Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  39. Everything that has been wrestled from doubtI welcome-the mouths that burst open afterlong knowledge of what it is to be mute. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  40. Death is our friend, precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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