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If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.

If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Dying, Accomplish, Unreal
Duino Elegies no. 4 (written 1912) (translation by Stephen Mitchell)

Thus we live, forever taking leave.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Spiritual, Forever, Dying
Rainer Maria Rilke (1975). “University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures”

To work is to live without dying.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Work, Dying
Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.88, W. W. Norton & Company

Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Death, Dying, Storm
Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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