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For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.
For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.
Approximate author period: c. 1900 AD · modern
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- Rainer Maria Rilke
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- Approximate author period: c. 1900 AD · modern
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