Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; …

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.
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