Weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announ…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you going and coming and often staying all night.). ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition, p.5, Vintage
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