What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solit…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child. ✨ Letters to a Young Poet. Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 6, 1929.
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