Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in comp…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). Prose and poetry, Burns & Oates
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