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Self Portrait by Joaquín Sorolla
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Let Life Happen to You

You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you,…
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Young Girl Reading by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
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And It’s a Very Good Thing, Literature

And it’s a very good thing, literature, a very good thing…a profound thing! A thing that…
By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Júlio de Sousa by José Tagarro
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Works of Art Are of an Infinite Solitude

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so…
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Portrait of Benedetto Junck by Tranquillo Cremona
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Go Into Yourself

You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No…
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Romeo and Juliet on the Balcony by Julius Kronberg
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The Last Little Star

I want to put flowers in your hair. But what flowers? There are none with…
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Sadness (Tristesse) by Paul-Albert Besnard
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Bear Your Sadnesses

If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and…
By Rainer Maria Rilke
A Couple by Frans Hals
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A Bond Between Two People

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that…
By Rainer Maria Rilke
A Chorus of Singers by William Hogarth
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The Secrets of Life

If we wish to be let in on the secrets of life, we must be…
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Young shepherd holding a flower by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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Our Hands

Seeing is for us the most authentic possibility of acquiring something. If god had only…
By Rainer Maria Rilke

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