I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a l…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, p.293, W. W. Norton & Company
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