"Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it."
-Rainer Maria Rilke
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"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.“
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