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Rainer Maria Rilke

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rilke is saying that truly loving another person is the hardest challenge we face in life, more demanding than any other effort. He believes that everything we do before this is simply practice for the real task of forming a deep, genuine connection with someone else.

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