But granted the consciousness that even between the closest people there persist infinite distances, a wonderful living side by side can arise for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them…
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters: 1899-1902, trans. Jane Bannard Greene (via sketchofthepast
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(Source: proustitute, via leopoldgursky)
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