Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like th…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke, The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII
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Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke, The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII

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