Do continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you a…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Do continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and world go forth from it. ✨ Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910.
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Do continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and world go forth from it. ✨ Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910.

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