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" Isn’t it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours
grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves
from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived:
the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string
to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere. "

Rainer Maria Rilke , Duino Elegies


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Rainer Maria Rilke quote : Isn’t it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours <br />grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves <br />from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: <br />the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string <br />to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.