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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
— Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
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An editorial interpretation.
Here love isn't merging or rescuing. It's two people who each stay separate in their own inner lives, yet guard one another, reach across the gap, and acknowledge each other. Closeness, in this picture, means respecting the distance between them rather than erasing it.
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