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Rainer Maria Rilke on Love

1875–1926 Austria

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Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.

Letters to a Young Poet (1934)

The demands which the difficult work of love makes upon our development are more than life-size, and as beginners we are not up to them.

Letters to a Young Poet (1934)

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