And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and th…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1940). Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems, p.41, Univ of California Press
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And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1940). Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems, p.41, Univ of California Press

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