Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Nev…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1961). Duino Elegies, Bilingual Edition, p.67, Univ of California Press
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Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1961). Duino Elegies, Bilingual Edition, p.67, Univ of California Press

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