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«Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | About: Destiny, Life | Keywords: carried
«Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | Keywords: helpless
«No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger»
«We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | Keywords: brightness, page
«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»
«Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | About: Art | Keywords: all the way, danger, further, gone, surely
«Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | Keywords: dragons, princesses
«When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us.»
«More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | About: Marriage | Keywords: belongs, legs
«Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.»

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