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A review by emmacrest
Stories of God: A New Translation by Rainer Maria Rilke
5.0
"'What has made you so kind?'
'Everything,' she said softly and warmly."
(A Story Told to the Dark)
"The gravedigger still smiled. 'It is a way of earning one's bread–and besides, I ask you, aren't most people doing the same? They bury God up there as I bury men here.' He pointed to the sky... 'Yes, that too is a great grave, in summer it is covered with wild forget-me-nots..." (A Tale of Death)
"Healthy people are so changeable...[the sick's] immobility makes him resemble things, with which indeed he fosters many intimacies; makes him, so to speak, a thing far superior to other things, a thing that listens not only with its silence but also with its rare, quiet words and with its gentle, reverent feelings." (How Old Timofei Died Singing)
'Everything,' she said softly and warmly."
(A Story Told to the Dark)
"The gravedigger still smiled. 'It is a way of earning one's bread–and besides, I ask you, aren't most people doing the same? They bury God up there as I bury men here.' He pointed to the sky... 'Yes, that too is a great grave, in summer it is covered with wild forget-me-nots..." (A Tale of Death)
"Healthy people are so changeable...[the sick's] immobility makes him resemble things, with which indeed he fosters many intimacies; makes him, so to speak, a thing far superior to other things, a thing that listens not only with its silence but also with its rare, quiet words and with its gentle, reverent feelings." (How Old Timofei Died Singing)