It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, w…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). Letters to a Young Poet
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It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). Letters to a Young Poet

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