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

Authentication Score 3

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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Everyone has something to hide.

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Medium
Personal journal
Language
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Time
1904 1900s 20th century
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I am convinced that a person doesn't only love himself in others, he also hates himself in others.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Author

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Medium
Personal journal
Language
German
Time
1779 1770s 18th century
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Original Citation

Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph. Journal "F." c. 1779.

Current Citation

Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph. "Notebook F 1776-1779." The Waste Books, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. NYRB Classics, 2000.

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Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Karl Marx

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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Topic
Free will Decisions and choices Effects of the past

Author

Karl Marx
Source
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Medium
Essay
Genre
Historical literature Political literature
Language
German
Time
1852 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Marx, Karl. "Der 18te Brumaire des Louis Napoleon [The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon]." Die Revolution [The Revolution], 1852.

Current Citation

Marx, Karl. "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon." The Political Writings, edited by David Fernbach. Verso, 2019.