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"Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned."
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Personal Development
"It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door."
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Personal Development
"Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live."
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Personal Development
"If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness."
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Personal Development
"Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you."
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Personal Development
"It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods, To tell them that this world did equal theirs Till they had stolen our jewel."
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Personal Development
"We are the products of fate, from beginning to end."
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Personal Development
"Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions."
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Personal Development
"There's that day when you realize that everything that happened before that one person found you, probably happened to prepare you and to prepare everything, for that person's arrival. It's not that everything suddenly "makes sense" but it's more that you understand why this didn't work and that didn't work and you fell into this ditch and you broke a certain bone somewhere. It's so they'd find you. Or so that you'd find them. So you'd find each other."
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Personal Development
"The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable."
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"Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse."
Business
"The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed."
Life
"Does this boat go to Europe, France?"
Travel
"I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever."
Materialism
"Gentlemen prefer blondes."
Entertainment
"There's nothing colder than chemistry."
Nothing
"I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk."
Man
"On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach."
People
"I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home."
Home
"Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free."
Pleasure
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