I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that…

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. ✨ Letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker, 12 Feb. 1902, in Gesammelte Briefe (Collected Letters, 1904) vol. 1, p. 204
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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. ✨ Letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker, 12 Feb. 1902, in Gesammelte Briefe (Collected Letters, 1904) vol. 1, p. 204

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