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Life Art Politics Death

Life Art Politics Death

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Alexander Riley
Feb 18, 2021
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Welcome to Life Art Politics Death by me, Alexander Riley.

Rilke wrote this somewhere: “One ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, and a long life if possible, and then, quite at the end, one might perhaps be able to write ten lines that were good.”

There’s something to that. Alas, I didn’t wait, and so it’s too late now. So I …

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