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Letters on CÃ©zanne (1952, trans. 1985)Letters to a Young Poet (1934, rev. 1954)published in Letters to a Young Poet (1934, revised 1954)published in Rilke's Letters on CÃ©zanne (1985, German edition 1952)quoted in Rilke, Letters on CÃ©zanne (1952, trans. 1985)

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The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), German poet. Letter, July 16, 1903. Letters to a Young Poet (1934, rev. 1954).

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