The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that …

Rainer Maria Rilke
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The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). Letters to a Young Poet
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