“So much it availed, you coming to him at night; his destiny, tall in its cloak, stepped back behind the cupboard, and his unquiet future, easily shifting, fitted itself into the folds of the curtain.”
Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke
Book:Duino Elegies
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