Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

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Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1925

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Mystery of death Death

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1925

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Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910-1926, translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

Original citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Witold von Hulewicz. 13 Nov. 1925.

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