“Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame… at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.”

—  Rainer Maria Rilke , book Letters to a Young Poet

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Austrian poet and writer 1875–1926

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