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— Rainer Maria Rilke"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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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
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