Don’t think that the person who’s trying to comfort you now lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes give you pleasure. His life has much more trouble and sadness, and remains far behind yours. If it were otherwise, he would never have been able to find those words.

Source: Ranier Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet : 8th Letter”

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