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“You created every part of me;
you put me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because you are to be feared;
all you do is strange and wonderful.
I know it with all my heart.
When my bones were being formed,
carefully put together in my mother’s womb,
when I was growing there in secret,
you knew that I was there—
you saw me before I was born.”
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you put me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because you are to be feared;
all you do is strange and wonderful.
I know it with all my heart.
When my bones were being formed,
carefully put together in my mother’s womb,
when I was growing there in secret,
you knew that I was there—
you saw me before I was born.”
―
“There are no more books to be written, thank God.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“we don’t love like the flowers, with just
the force of a single year; when we love,
ancient sap is rising.”
― Duino Elegies
the force of a single year; when we love,
ancient sap is rising.”
― Duino Elegies
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