Stay

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Now the journey is ending,

the wind is losing heart.

Into your hands it's falling,

a rickety house of cards.

The cards are backed with pictures

displaying all the world.

You've stacked up all the images

and shuffled them with words.

And how profound the playing

that once again begins!

Stay, the card you're drawing

is the only world you'll win.

~ Ingeborg Bachmann

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It (destiny) is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.

~ Paulo Coelho