Love and Live the Questions
“You are so young—so much before all beginnings—and I want to ask you, dear sir, as best I can, to have patience about everything that is still unresolved in your heart; try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language.
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“Don’t look for the answers now: they cannot be given to you yet because you cannot yet live them, and what matters is to live everything. For now, live the questions. If you do, then maybe, gradually, without your realizing it, some far-off day you will live your way into the answer.” — Rainier Maria Rilke; Letters to a Young Poet: Translated by Damion Searls, p. 22
Jansson Stegner
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