"Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.“


-Rainer Maria Rilke

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

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