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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes: 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.
         

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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