At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company
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