Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Dying
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Thus we live, forever taking leave.
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If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.
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Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.
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To work is to live without dying.
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The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."And tonight the heavy earth is fallingaway from all other stars in the loneliness.We're all falling. This hand here is falling.And look at the other one. It's in them all.And yet there is Someone, whose handsinfinitely calm, holding up all this falling.
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