The longer I live, the more urgent it seems to me to endure and transcribe the whole dictation of existence up to its end, for it might just be the case that only the very last sentence contains that small and possibly inconspicuous word through which everything we had struggled to learn and everything we had failed to understand will be transformed suddenly into magnificent sense.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1963) German poet
Letter (1913-12-21) to Ilse Erdman [tr. Baer (2005)]
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in reply to WIST Quotations • • •IOW, endure the entire novel of existence just cuz at the very end, the final sentence will explain everything.
Charming.
But life doesn't read like a Russian novel. More like a bureaucratic memo left behind by the universe after 3 drinks. The last line just says "end of document"
It's quite likely that my life will end like a corrupted file.
Abruptly, w/o explanation