What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner soli…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). Letters to a Young Poet, p.27, Courier Corporation
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