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Rilke’s Redemption: The Beloved Poet’s Stirring Letter to His Boyhood Teacher at the Military Academy That Almost Broke His Soul

Source: Brain Pickings

“Life is very singularly made to surprise us (where it does not utterly appall us).”

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