If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company
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