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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes: A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead.
         

A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead.


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