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I hope, in many ways, that I’ll live a life similar to Rilke’s: a constant stream of visitors staying at my house, abiding friendships with people of both genders, life in many beautiful countries, writing sincere poetry, embracing uncertainty, and remaining convinced of the inexplicable beauties of life.

I move so slowly through this book because I reread each letter multiple times, carefully. Rilke will always be my favorite. Sometimes it makes me sad that the people who seem to understand me the most are separated by so many years in death. But I guess Rilke would say we aren’t that separate after all.