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- Author's profession: Physicist
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: March 14, 1879
- Died: April 18, 1955
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And when you realize that their activities are shabby, that their vocations are petrified and no longer connected with life, why not then continue to look upon it all as a child would, as if you were looking at something unfamiliar, out of the depths of your own solitude, which is itself work and status and vocation? Why should you want to give up a child’s wise not-understanding in exchange for a defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas...
Rainer Maria Rilke