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“But your solitude, even in the midst of quite foreign circumstances, will be a hold and a home for you, and leading from it you will find all the paths you need.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“I breathed in Dad's smoke so that his cares would become mine. After that, I said a quick prayer to God that he wouldn't give me cancer from the cigarette smoke [...].”
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

“Think [...] of the world that you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you like. Whether it is memory of your own childhood or longing for you own future – just be attnetive towards what rises up inside you, and place it above everything that you notice round about.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“We can't simply swap God - he's the strongest Pokémon card we have.”
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening