All Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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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.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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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.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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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.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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