Wednesday, August 17, 2016

a bond between two

"I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other."

(Rainer Maria Rilke)

2 comments:

  1. So very true. And equally rare. But what is life if we don't try to live it by the dictums that find the deepest echo in ourselves.

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  2. Yes. I'm a cynical idealist - I recognize the difficulty and rarity of it, but someone should at least try.

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