The Future

Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875–1926

The future: time's excuse to frighten us; too vast a project, too large a morsel for the heart's mouth.

Future, who won't wait for you? Everyone is going there. It suffices you to deepen the absence that we are.

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