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Ep 3 - Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)

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The Dangers of Falling in Love

Young people so often commit the serious error of holding themselves at one another when love overcomes them. They make themselves completely available just as they are in all their disorder disarray confusion but what is life supposed to do with this pile of half smashed up things that they call their commonality and would like to call their happiness? Rilca says everyone loses himself for the sake of another person but through this process loses that person and many others who wanted to come later.

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