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The quote says that genuine love does not diminish when it is shared. Instead, giving more can make a person feel fuller or richer in love. It presents love as something that grows through generosity.
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Source
Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke: 1892-1910 (1945)
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Originally said in English.
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The phrase appears in the book "Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke: 1892-1910 (1945)" by Rainer Maria Rilke (Google Books snippet); no earlier source was checked.
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About Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet
Rainer Maria Rilke was an Austrian poet and major German-language writer. He is remembered for writing with a distinctive, highly expressive voice, and for work that critics have often read as marked by mysticism. His writing explores subjective experience and doubt, and it spans poetry, one novel, several volumes of correspondence, and a few early novellas. These pieces helped establish his reputation as a writer whose language is intimate, reflective, and inward-looking.
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Books by Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a young poet
2011
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Poems
1997
Neue Gedichte
1998
Stundenbuch
2009