Maria Rilke Rainer :
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.
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Love
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Age and Aging
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Success
Gift it
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