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title: "32 People Quotes By Rainer Maria Rilke"
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> [So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/so-this-is-where-people-come-to-live-i-would-have-thought-it-is-a/)

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> [Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/young-people-who-are-beginners-in-everything-cannot-yet-know-love/)

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> [May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/may-you-gain-more-and-more-confidence-in-what-is-difficult-and-in/)

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> [Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/only-those-sadnesses-are-dangerous-and-bad-which-one-carries-about/)

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> [Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/shattered-people-are-best-represented-by-bits-and-pieces/)

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> [For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/for-poems-are-not-as-people-think-simply-emotions-one-has-emotions/)

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> [Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/ah-how-good-it-is-to-be-among-people-who-are-reading/)

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> [A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/a-merging-of-two-people-is-an-impossibility-and-where-it-seems-to/)

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> [I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-hold-this-to-be-the-highest-task-for-a-bond-between-two-people-that/)

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> [Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/most-people-have-turned-their-solutions-toward-what-is-easy-and/)

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> [Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/your-solitude-will-expand-and-become-a-place-where-you-can-live-in/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/most-people-come-to-know-only-one-corner-of-their-room-one-spot-near/)

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> [As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/as-people-used-to-be-wrong-about-the-motion-of-the-sun-so-they-are/)

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> [Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/do-not-do-not-do-not-books-for-ever-hammer-at-people-like-perpetual/)

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> [Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/nothing-strange-should-befall-us-but-only-that-which-has-long/)

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> [Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/bound-by-conventions-people-tend-to-reach-for-what-is-easy-here-we/)

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> [If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/if-there-is-nothing-you-can-share-with-other-people-try-to-be-close-2/)

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> [You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/you-darkness-that-i-come-from-i-love-you-more-than-all-the-fires-that/)

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> [People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/people-have-with-the-help-of-conventions-oriented-all-their-solutions-2/)

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> [There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/there-are-quite-a-number-of-people-in-the-reading-room-but-one-is-not/)

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> [And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/and-one-of-the-things-i-find-most-moving-is-the-way-people-with/)

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> [Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/again-and-again-in-history-some-people-wake-up-they-have-no-ground-in/)

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> [That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/that-is-why-young-people-who-are-beginners-in-everything-are-not-yet/)

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> [It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/it-is-true-that-these-mysteries-are-dreadful-and-people-have-always/)

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> [All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/all-companionship-can-consist-in-only-the-strengthening-of/)

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> [Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/physical-pleasure-is-a-sensual-experience-no-different-from-pure/)

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> [I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-am-so-afraid-of-people-s-words-they-describe-so-distinctly/)

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> [My art is representational by choice…if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/my-art-is-representational-by-choice-if-the-art-of-painting-is-to/)

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> [I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-hold-this-to-be-the-highest-task-of-a-bond-between-two-people-that/)

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> [Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/just-as-language-has-no-longer-anything-in-common-with-the-thing-it/)

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> [For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/for-one-human-being-to-love-another-that-is-perhaps-the-most-2/)

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> [Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/things-aren-t-all-so-tangible-and-sayable-as-people-would-usually/)

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> [“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains silent, our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/out-of-infinite-longings-rise-finite-deeds-like-weak-fountains/)

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> [“I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-love-the-dark-hours-of-my-being-my-mind-deepens-into-them-there-i/)

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> [“A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/a-complete-sharing-between-two-people-is-an-impossibility-and/)

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> [“But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/but-this-is-what-people-are-so-often-and-disastrously-wrong-in-doing/)

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> [“If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things. Things will not abandon you. The nights are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/if-there-is-nothing-you-can-share-with-other-people-try-to-be-close/)

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> [To be here is immense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/to-be-here-is-immense/)

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> [“Sin is the most wonderfully roundabout path to God”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/sin-is-the-most-wonderfully-roundabout-path-to-god/)

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> [Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/swells-marina-we-ocean-depths-marina-we-sky/)

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> [“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/the-point-of-marriage-is-not-to-create-a-quick-commonality-by-tearing/)

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> [You life will find its own paths... and that they be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/you-life-will-find-its-own-paths-and-that-they-be-good-rich-and-wide/)

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> [I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-do-not-want-to-be-folded-for-where-i-am-folded-there-i-am-a-lie/)

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> [At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/at-no-other-time-than-autumn-does-the-earth-let-itself-be-inhaled-in/)

[Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/)

> [“That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/that-is-why-the-sadness-passes-the-new-presence-inside-us-the/)

[Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/)

> [“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/have-patience-with-everything-that-remains-unsolved-in-your-heart-try/)

[Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/)

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                        "text": "Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.",
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