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“Tutti siamo soggetti al fato. Però tutti dobbiamo agire come se non lo fossimo. O morire di disperazione.”

Book:The Golden Compass

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The Golden Compass

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Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman is a British film writer known for his adaptations of literary works. Born in October 1946, he is a prolific writer who has adapted several renowned novels into film scripts. more

“There are indeed many places where I could start. I might start with Rachel's tears, or Priscilla's. There is much shedding of tears in this story. In a complex explanation any order may seem arbitrary. Where after all does anything begin? That three of the four starting points I have mentioned were causally independent of each other suggests speculations, doubtless of the most irrational kind, upon the mystery of human fate.”

Chance Fate Storytelling Iris Murdoch Beginning The Black Prince Meta Narrator

Book:The Black Prince

Source: The Black Prince

“He had to go there because of Patrick; and because it was fated. Yes, that gave him courage, to feel that he had not sought it, it had come upon him, and however fruitless or disastrous that journey might be, he had to undertake it, because it was his fate.”

Fate Journey Denial Iris Murdoch The Message To The Planet Fated

Book:The Message To The Planet

Source: The Message To The Planet

“Not the bureaucrat's stamp on the folder of our fate. But a knot nonetheless, and not of our making.”

Poetry Fate Space In Chains Laura Kasischke

Book:Space, in Chains

Source: Space, in Chains

“People to whom a terrible thing has never happened trust fate, the notion that what's meant to be, will be. The rest of us know better.”

Life Quotes Fate Trauma

Book:American Wife

Source: American Wife

“It's nice to know you had the last word and you made the call and you decided your fate but it doesn't make it hurt any less.”

Fate Call Last Word

Author:Nitya Prakash

“The journey from innocence to experience is also often the journey from companionship and fellowship to isolation and solitude, because once we learn, feel, or see what we're meant to from those in our life, they go away.”

People Life Philosophy God Spirituality Destiny Fate Behavior

Author:Daniel V Chappell

“There are times when the dreams that come true were once the dreams that you never had courage for, you thought those weren't meant for you”

Inspirational Courage Fate Dreams

Book:Animagi

Source: Animagi

“Me: Can you define yourself? Fate: The mighty didn't give me an identity. Me: How would you like to work on one's life? Fate: I don't have a certain way, I always like to work as per one's will.”

Life Inspirational Motivational Happiness Fate Happy Life Will Partial

Book:My Quest For Happy Life

Source: My Quest For Happy Life

“Many adventurers would say that opportunity is something that you find as part of a relentless search, or that it’s something that an imagination unleashed shapes and creates. And while all of that sounds bold and wonderfully fearless, it’s my sense that opportunity is more that thing to which we’ve been called by something larger than ourselves, and less something that is a product of ourselves.”

Life God Success Opportunity Fate Search Adventurer Bold

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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