“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
“An empire derives no advantage from the caresses of two turtledoves who spend a year cooing to each other in public meetings.”
Charles Fourier: The Visionary and His World, J. Beecher (1986), p. 315
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French utopian socialist and philosopher 1772–1837Related quotes
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3 (20 October 1917); as published in The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954); also in Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (1954); variant translations use "cardinal sins" instead of "main human sins" and "laziness" instead of "indolence".
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Context: There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
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Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
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