“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
“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.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
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