"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation."

Fate, Man, Prudence, Woman

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"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation."

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"I have it in my head that when we're born, God writes things down on our hearts. See, on some people's hearts he writes happy and on some people's hearts he writes sad and on some people's hearts he writes crazy and on some people's hearts he writes genius and on some people's hearts he writes angry and on some people's hearts he writes winner and on some people's hearts he writes loser."

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"It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door."

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"Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

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"Fate had kept me alive just to get to this point, just to see if I was listening."

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"Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

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"A person's destiny often ends before his death."

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"I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"Some people would not be dead if they have not gotten the things or people they had prayed for."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Fate' and 'coincidence' are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a 'greater purpose', because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a 'Greater Being'."

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"In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you."

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"No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave."

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"Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!"

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"I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation."

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"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived."

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"Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth."

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"Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work."

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"There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it."

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"It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?"

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"You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content."

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