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Quote by E.M. Forester
Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their sta

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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