Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exc…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). Letters to a Young Poet
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