"When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate."

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"When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate."

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"The universe whispered it's him, but I sent you away ~ I tested our connection and left it to fate, Years have passed and others have come into our lives, but here we are again, meeting another time.Our timing is off, so we set our connection free once again, trusting the winds of fate and the synchronicity it sends."

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"When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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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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"Jonah-John-if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still-not because I have been unlucky for others, but because somebody or something has compelled me to be certain places, at certain times, without fail. Conveyances and motives, both conventional and bizarre, have been provided. And, according to plan, at each appointed second, at each appointed place this Jonah was there."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved."

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"The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others."

Doctors

"The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other."

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"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are."

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Taste

"The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects."

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"The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied."

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