We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For ho…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2013). The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, p.107, Vintage
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