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Quotes

18by people from here

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

1904

★ 7.0

We need in love to practice only this: Letting each other go. For holding on Comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1909

★ 6.9

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1901

★ 6.8

Love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters to a Young Poet · 1929

★ 5.2

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Books

4set here

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1984★ 7.7

Austerlitz

2001★ 7.6

The Good Soldier Svejk

1923★ 6.6

Too Loud a Solitude

1976★ 5.5

Art

3held here

Haymaking

1566★ 6.7

Festival of the Rose Garlands

1506★ 6.6

The Virgin

1913★ 5.7