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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

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Rainer Maria Rilke
Age: 51 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 4
Died: 1926
Died: December 29
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If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.
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Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.
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