To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one. ✨ R…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). Letters on Life: New Prose Translations, p.77, Modern Library
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To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). Letters on Life: New Prose Translations, p.77, Modern Library

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