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

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Connecting with others Nature of love Love

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Source

Letters to a Young Poet

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Czech Republic Europe

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Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 14 May 1904.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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Source
Elegies
Medium
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

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Current Citation

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God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
The Antichrist
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1895 1890s 19th century
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Der Antichrist [The Antichrist]. 1895, no. 48.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. "The Anti-Christ." The Twilight of the Idols and Anti-Christ, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990, no. 48.