From the Poet Rainer Maria Rilke dated: August 1, 1918 to his friend Sidonie Nadherny von Borutin, whose brother died suddenly:
".....You have to keep moving, you have to return to the things that had been his, you have to lay hand on your lost one's things that are also yours due to such complex relations and attractions. This might be the mission assigned to you by this incomprehensible fate. You have to continue his life within your life to the extent that it had not been completed; his life has now passed over to yours and you who truly knew him, can move forwards quite as he intended; make this the task of your mourning, to explore what he expected of you, hoped for you, wished would happen to you. If I could convince you, my friend, that his influence has not left your existence. ......Now especially he is here, and now he has all the freedom to be here and we have all the freedom to feel him. Do not believe that anything that is part of our true realities could disappear or cease to exist."
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