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

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

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

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

Let everything happen to you, Beauty and terror, Just keep going, No feeling is final.

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

People don’t take trips, trips take people.