This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: …

Rainer Maria Rilke
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company

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