Disguised since childhood,
haphazardly assembled
from voices and fears and little pleasures
we come of age as masks.
Our true face never speaks.
Somewhere there must be storehouses
where all these lives are laid away
like suits of armor or old carriages
or clothes hanging limply on the walls
Maybe all paths lead there,
to the depository of unlived things.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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