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Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke

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“Having oscillated all his life between the torments of a superficial loitering and the horrors of disinterested endeavour, he finds himself at last in a situation where to do nothing exclusively would be an act of the highest value, and significance.”
― Samuel Beckett, Watt

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“Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.”
― C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

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“Her voice, delicate as it was, had the strength to it that made one realize why a teacup can stay in one piece for centuries, defying the changes of history and the turmoil of man.”
― Richard Brautigan, Sombrero Fallout

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“To be normal is the ideal aim for the unsuccessful.”
― C.G. Jung

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“Your trouble is that reaching final conclusions just isn't your thing. You're afraid the decision you make will deprive you of further choice, so that paralyzes your will.”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

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