February 6, 2005
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”…perhaps the sexes are more related than we think, and the great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this – that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings, in order simply, seriously, and patiently to bear in common the difficult sex that is laid upon them… “
“Because he loves as a man only, not as human being, for this reason there is in his sexual feeling something narrow, seeming wild, spiteful, time-bound, uneternal…This advance will change the love experience…alter it from the ground up, reshape it into a relation that is meant to be of one human being to another, no longer of man to woman…”
“And this more human love (that will fullfil itself, infinitely considerate and gentle, and kind and clear in binding and releasing) will resemble that which we are preparing with struggle and toil, the love that consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
