what is bad is the way almost all of us misuse the experience and waste it and apply it as a stimulus to the tired parts of our lives, as a distraction instead of as a concentration of ourselves into climactic points.
 Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (1929). copy citation

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Author Rainer Maria Rilke
Source Letters to a Young Poet
Topic distraction concentration
Date 1929
Language English
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Note Translated by Charlie Louth
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