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No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't

No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't notice that they are missing. But realities are slow and indescribably detailed.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Reality, Missing, Details

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Dream, Reality, Contemplation
Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.101, W. W. Norton & Company

We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Reality, Accepting, Unprecedented
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and world go forth from it.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Confidence, Believe, Reality
"Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910".

Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Girl, Mean, Reality
"Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Seven (May 14, 1904), 1929.

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