Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

There I Sat, Probably Looking So Dreadful That Nothing Had The Courage To Stand By Me; Not Even The Candle, Which I Had Just Done The Service Of Lighting It, Would Have Anything To Do With Me. It Burned Away There By Itself, As In An Empty Room. My Last Hope Was Always The Window. I Imagined That Outside There, There Still Might Be Something That Belonged To Me, Even Now, Even In This Sudden Poverty Of Dying. But Scarcely Had I Looked Thither When I Wished The Window Had Been Barricaded, Blocked Up, Like The Wall. For Now I Knew That Things Were Going On Out There In The Same Indifferent Way, That Out There, Too, There Was Nothing But My Loneliness. The Loneliness I Had Brought Upon Myself And To The Greatness Of Which My Heart No Longer Stood In Any Sort Of Proportion. People Came To My Mind Whom I Had Once Left, And I Did Not Understand How One Could Forsake People.

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