the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to cop…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense. ✨ Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1960.
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