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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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