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No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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[W]hat is called chance is the instrument of Providence… – Horace Walpole, 1777 letter to Countess of Ossory

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I’m not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare who says that it’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping. – P.G. Wodehouse

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Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. – E.M. Forester

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If you do not do what you are supposed to do in life, the universe will do it for you. – Kim Russo, “The Haunting Of… Meat Loaf” (original airdate 2015 October 22n

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