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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1929

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Connecting with others Nature of love Love

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Letter

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1929

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Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Original citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 14 May 1904.

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