I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep befo…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (1996). Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)
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I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (1996). Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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