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“More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.” quote by Rainer Maria Rilke — Download Open image

“More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

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