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Dante Alighieri1 quote
If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious haven. — Dante Alighieri · 1321David Foster Wallace1 quote
Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer. — David Foster Wallace · 1996Friedrich Nietzsche1 quote
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our to-day. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1878