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Who, if I shouted, among the hierarchy of angels, would hear me?
And supposing one of them took me, suddenly, to his heart?
I would perish before his stronger existence.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of a terror we can just barely endure,
And we admire it so because it calmly disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrifying!

Rilke, First Elegy

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