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I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. – Lucan

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The pulse of destiny still shook the foundations of the world. The will that had willed this thing to happen had now another will to deal with—nor should the stream of Fate swallow up his heart without a cry. – Frederic Jesup Stimson, In Cure of Her Soul, 1906, wording slightly altered

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Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate,” which is in fact your life. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Fate laughs at probabilities. – Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

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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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