When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the s…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company
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