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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes: There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
         

There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.


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Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.



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This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.



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And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been



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But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.



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