“We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.”
Source: Lolita
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Vladimir Nabokov193
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977Related quotes
“We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: How They Met, and Other Stories
“I don't intend to share fate,
Fate which is a universal loneliness.”
Chairil Anwar (1922–1949) Indonesian poet
"Pemberian Tahu" ["A Proclamation"] (1946), p. 184
The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar (trans. Burton Raffel)
“We must remember that they are alien.”
Paul J. McAuley (1955) British writer
“That’s hardly a basis for speculation now. It explains everything and nothing.”
Chapter 2 “The Hold” (p. 70)
Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988)
“Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.”
Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) Norwegian writer
Source: The Wife
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher
Das Schicksal des jüdischen Volkes ist das Schicksal Makbeths, der aus der Natur selbst trat, sich an fremde Wesen hing, und so in ihrem Dienste alles Heilige der menschlichen Natur zertreten und ermorden, von seinen Göttern (denn es waren Objekte, er war Knecht) endlich verlassen, und an seinem Glauben selbst zerschmettert werden mußte.
in Theologische Jugendschriften (1907), S. 261
The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate (1799)
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“Conservatism is alien to the very nature of capitalism.”
Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961) Defected Communist spy
Source: Odyssey of a Friend (1969), p. 229