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"Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful things."
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"The lieutenant-colonel realized for the first time what most people never realize about themselves--that he was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune's cruelest agents as well."
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"I'm supposed to believe it's a coincidence that we're both former spies that ended up together?"
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"I could have done even better, miss, and I'd know a lot more, if it wasn't for my destiny ever since childhood. I'd have killed a man in a duel with a pistol for calling me low-born, because I came from Stinking Lizaveta without a father, and they were shoving that in my face in Moscow. It spread there thanks to Grigory Vasilievich. Grigory Vasilievich reproaches me for rebelling against my nativity: 'You opened her matrix,' he says. I don't know about her matrix, but I'd have let them kill me in the womb, so as not to come out into the world at all, miss."
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"And I was holding someone who was destined to be my best friend, or possibly my worst enemy."
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"The Weird Sisters, hand in hand,Posters of the sea and land,Thus do go, about, about,Thrice to thine, thrice to mine,And thrice again to make up nine.Peace, the charm's wound up."
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"Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us."
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"I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars."
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"Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards."
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"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves. Easy enough to say when you're a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars."
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"To touch a sore is to renew one's grief."
Grief
"What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense."
Commonsense
"Extreme law is often extreme injustice."
Law
"Fortune favors the brave."
Courage
"Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion."
Family
"Nothing is said that has not been said before."
Nothing
"I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me."
Humanity
"You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly."
Hope
"How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for."
Hope
"What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!"
Family
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