"Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand ...

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~












Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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