• 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
  German poet 1875-1926
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1. preparation
2. ultimate
3. tasks
4. proof
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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. by : Rainer Maria Rilke

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