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The Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Beauty is as close to terror
as we can well endure.
Angels would not condescend
to damn our meagre souls.
That is why they awe
and why they terrify us so.
Every angel is terrible!”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Duino Elegies

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