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There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as…
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As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of…
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I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out.…
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It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks…
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I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to…
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To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse,…
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Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental…
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Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
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Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.
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Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out…
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We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
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That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect…
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True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.…
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Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what…
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If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.
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May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start…
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We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go…
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for…
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Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted. And leaving…
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Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their…
— Gaston Bachelard
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This is Rilke. I wish I had written it for you.
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Slowly but surely I have been soaking Rilke up these last few months: the man, his work and his life. And that…
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I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of…
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