Rainer Maria Rilke
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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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