Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergon…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). Letters to a Young Poet
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