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EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

Duino Elegies–Ranier Maria Rilke

Paris 2025

The beautiful
is nothing but the beginning
of the terrible that we still barely endure,
and we admire it so
because it serenely disdains
to destroy us.

— First Elegy by Rilke

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