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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

"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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Personal Development

"Fate will catch up to you, souls don't have a physical address."
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Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Doug Coupland

"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member."
Needs

"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own."
Family

"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it."
Connection

"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
Cultural

"On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen."
Time

"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."
Emotional

"Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs."
People

"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
Want

"Where does personality end and brain damage begin?"
Psychology

"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."
Body
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