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Elizabeth Bowen

"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat."

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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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"Fate demands that we continue suffering, until we willingly seek out and discover the sacred path of righteousness. Until we surrender to the sameness of life, we are unable to experience the absolute ground zero of reality. Only by surrendering our desires, by readjusting our consciousness to a state undefined, unbound, and unmotivated by passion and desire, will we experience life transformed."

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"Never declare Fate your enemy; she does not take lightly declarations of war. Declare your friendship to her instead, and smile in hope of better days."

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"Destiny is what you make it, otherwise you are at the mercy of fate."

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"Fate seems to scourge some people with her furies, while it ravishes others with her graces with none having done absolutely nothing to suffer the furies or merit the graces."

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"Never declare fate your enemy, she comes with great fury against those who give up all hope."

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"If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do."

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"Even "meant to be" takes work."

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"The gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake."

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"Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it."

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