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"Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned."
"It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door."
"Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Thomas Hardy
"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."
"There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound."
"I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
"Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity."
"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
"Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm."
"You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness."
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