only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any expe…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.
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