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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Rainer Maria Rilke
1902
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Topic
RelationshipsSolitudeIndependence
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Letter
Time
1902
Person
Rainer Maria Rilke
Provenance
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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.
Original citation
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker. 12 Feb. 1902.

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