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“I know that nothing has ever been real
without my beholding it.
All becoming has needed me.
My looking ripens things
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

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“We are nothing but lies, duplicity, contradiction, and we hide and disguise ourselves from ourselves.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: contradictions, dishonesty, duplicity, falsehood, lies

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“Why do you treasure your voice
when to be one thing
is to be next to nothing?”
― Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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“it is
a bitter thing to be
the disposable animal,
a bitter thing.”
― Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

tags: disposability, poem, poetry

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“even here, even at the beginning of love,
her hand leaving his face makes
an image of departure
and they think
they are free to overlook
this sadness.”
― Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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