369 Rilke and the Search for God
The History of Literature
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Is There Only One Solitude?
What would a solitude be that was not vast? There is only one solitude. What does that sound like to you? It sounds like something large, bigger than all of us. Whether it's solitude or this something else, which i'm suggesting might be god, this is bigger, vaster. This is vast, so vast that to define it means we accept that there is only one of its kind and it is large. But if it's not those four things, vast, heavy, difficult to bear and and singular, then it would not even be solitude. I like, that's four things i just named, isn't it? Then if it're not those two things, vast
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