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Rainer Maria Rilke

“Fame is nothing but the sum of all the misunderstandings that cluster around a new name…Wherever a human achievement becomes truly great, it seeks to hide its face in the lap of general, nameless greatness.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Life
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Letters on Life Letters on Life by Rainer Maria Rilke
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