...no experience is too slight, and the merest occurrence unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, vast fabric in which every thread is drawn by an infinitely tender hand and laid next to another, held in place and supported by hundred others.

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Letter to Franz Xaver Kappus (Viareggio near Pisa in Italy, 23 April 1903).

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