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   Letters to a Young Poet

   Rainer Maria Rilke

   “To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

   Rilke on what real love asks of us, and what it gives:

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