| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 46562 |
| QUOTATION: | Surely all art is the result of ones having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Rainer Maria Rilke (18751926), German poet. Letter, June 24, 1907, to his wife. Rilkes Letters on Cézanne (1952, trans. 1985). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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