Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just …

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). Letters to a Young Poet
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