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ayitskaty's review against another edition
5.0
Wow, just wow. I know Rilke and I would've hit it off in college because damn was he a sad lonely mess who just needed a moment of peace and quiet. Still, it's admirable how he was able to write the most heartwarming and passionate advice to Kappus, while dealing with so much in his personal life. I look up to his words religiously and will desperately apply them to my every breath and jolt.
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emotional
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boriplngr's review against another edition
inspiring
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5.0
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism. "
"Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them."
"And in fact the artist's experience
lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same ongoing and bliss."
"Instead of a completely ripe and pure world of sexuality, it finds a world that is not human enough, that is only male, is heat, thunder, and restlessness, and burdened with the old prejudice and arrogance with which the male has always disfigured and burdened."
"Because he loves only as a male, and not as a human being, there is something narrow in his sexual feeling, something that seems wild, malicious, time-bound, uneternal, which diminishes his art and makes it ambiguous and doubtful."
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living."
"People have already had to rethink so many concepts of motion; and they will also gradually come to realize that whatwe call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us. "
"People have already had to rethink so many concepts of motion; and they will also gradually come to realize that whatwe call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us. "
"must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it."