It was not delight, not wonder that arose among us, it was the peace of heaven. A thousand times have I said… — Friedrich Hölderlin

It was not delight, not wonder that arose among us, it was the peace of heaven.

A thousand times have I said it to her and to myself: the most beautiful is also the most sacred. And such was everything in her. Like her singing, even so was her life.

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