Thus we live, forever taking leave. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1975). Unive…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Thus we live, forever taking leave. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1975). University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
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Thus we live, forever taking leave. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1975). University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures

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