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Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a ca...

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If your love for […] wants to do something now, then its work and task is this: to catch up with wha...

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…[S]uddenly your eye, which was already preparing itself for larger dimensions, goes about willingly...

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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances conti...

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Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even no...

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And those, who come together in the night and are twined in quivering pleasure, are performing a ser...

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...In a case like this, the thing is (in my own opinion) to draw back upon oneself, and not to striv...

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I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world.

We only pass everything by like a transposition of air.

Perhaps all the dragons of your life are princesses, who are only waiting for us to show a little be...

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How they are all about, these gentlemenIn chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced,Like night around...

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