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Rainer Maria Rilke

“Society in its wisdom has found ways of constructing refuges of all kinds, for since it has been disposed to make the love-life a pastime, it has also felt obliged to trivialize it, to make it cheap, risk-free and secure, as public pleasures usually are.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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