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Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). Letters to a Young Poet, p.38, New World Library
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What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition, p.266, Vintage
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She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall And clears it for a different celebration. ✨ … ▶
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). S … ▶
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Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). Letters to a Young Poet, p.38, New World Library

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