Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). Letters to a Young Poet
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