I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I …

Rainer Maria Rilke
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I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (1996). Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)
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