Hardship


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Rainer Maria Rilke
Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an ...more
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

F. Scott Fitzgerald
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past..
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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1. The story IS centered around traumatic human experience. 2. The story IS fiction, non-fiction…more
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