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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

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

1983

★ 5.2

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1925

★ 4.5

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

The Great Wall of China · 1931

★ 4.4

Novel · Modernist literature

When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

The Metamorphosis · 1915

★ 3.8

A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1929

★ 3.7

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 3.7

Who has not sat nervously before the stage curtain of his heart?

Rainer Maria Rilke

1923

★ 3.6

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1901

★ 3.5

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1902

★ 3.5

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us... We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

1904

★ 3.5

For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 3.5

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Ladies, you have to be strong and independent, and remember, don't get mad, get everything.

The First Wives Club · 1996

★ 3.5

Cultural evolution is equivalent to the removal of ornament from articles in daily use.

1910

★ 3.5

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 2.0

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 2.0

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1929

★ 1.9

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