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December 21, 2007
the beginning of holiness
This lying-down-with-the-leper and sharing all one’s own warmth with him, including the heart-warmth of nights of love: this must at some point have been part of an artist’s experience, as a self-overcoming on the way to his new bliss…Behind this devotion, in small ways at first, lies the beginning of holiness: the simple life of a love that endured; that, without ever boasting of it, approaches everything, unaccompanied, inconspicuous, wordless.
Rilke - Letters on Cezanne
Posted by amin at December 21, 2007 11:42 PM