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“GONE. You're gone. ...Another case of not getting what I thought I wanted. Instead I'll get what I'm supposed to have because the Powers That Be can make better decisions for me than I can.”

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“And then there are days of being lost in the woods, not knowing the fate, but just being a wanderer - That's life”

Life Lost Fate Sad Wander Unsure

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“Apollo, Apollo—but he is my lord. I will keep silence. He is wise forever, though his oracle spoke brutal words. We are bound to acquiesce. And you must do now as Fate and Zeus ordain.”

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Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“I sing the progress of a deathless soul, Whom Fate, which God made, but doth not control, Placed in most shapes; all times before the law Yoked us, and when, and since, in this I sing. And the great world to his aged evening, From infant morn, through manly noon I draw.”

Book:The Complete English Poems

Source: The Complete English Poems

“Sometimes the things that do not quite happen in your life count for more than the things that do.”

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Book:Love Feast: Part 3 of the Book of Bebb

Source: Love Feast: Part 3 of the Book of Bebb

“You can't go back and change things once they're done. You can't rewrite history. Dwelling on it, wondering what could've been different, wondering how things might be in a perfect world, is a waste of time. Because this world isn't perfect, life isn't perfect, and it never will be.”

Life History Fate Flaws

Book:Torture to Her Soul

Source: Torture to Her Soul

“They say that nothing good or happy goes on for very long, or rather does not last, but in my opinion the same is true for the bad, it should also all end sometime, right?” - Olga Romanov (trans Helen Azar)”

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Author:Helen Azar

“Whether sunrise or sunset, it heralds a new opportunity to dream...”

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Author:Virginia Alison

“Oh, the vanity of plans! Our lives proceed regardless. All the things we work out in such minute detail slip away from us at the last moment, or change.”

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Book:The Bells of Bruges

Source: The Bells of Bruges

“Le hasard, c'est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu quand il ne veut pas signer.”

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Book:The Cross of Berny or Irene's Lovers

Source: The Cross of Berny or Irene's Lovers

“In his stay with the cultured old epicure, Casanova had learnt two Latin saws, which were to be for the rest of his life his gospel and his policy: Fata viam inveniunt. Volentem ducit, nolentem trahit. As we may say : Fate finds the way, and Life leads its lover, betrays its rebel.”

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Book:Twelve Against the Gods

Source: Twelve Against the Gods