Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . .…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé (2008). Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters, p.303, W. W. Norton & Company
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