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

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Relationships Solitude Independence

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Czech Republic Europe

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Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker. 12 Feb. 1902.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Topic
Forgetfulness

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Beyond Good and Evil
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1886 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 7, no. 217.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 7, no. 217.