For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficul…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ✨ John J. L. Mood, Rainer Maria Rilke (1994). Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company
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