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. (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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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