weren’t you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep he — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
weren’t you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep he — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
weren’t you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep he — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
weren’t you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep he — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
weren’t you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep he — Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
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weren’t you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside yougoing and coming and often staying all night.)…

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
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