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Rainer Maria Rilke

“Ask no one to speak of you, not even contemptuously. And when time passes and you notice how your name is spreading around among people, don't take it more seriously than any of the other things you find on their lips. Think: your name has turned bad, and get rid of it. Take on another, any other, so that God can call you in the night. And conceal it from everyone.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
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