“Gambling was the place where statistics and profound human consequences met most nakedly, after all, and cards, even more than dice or the numbers on a roulette wheel, seemed able to define and perhaps even dictate a player’s…luck.”

Conclusion
Elements of Physiology (1875)

John McEnroe. http://www.atpchampionstour.com/news62.html

"The Individual, Society and the State" (1940) http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1940/individual.htm
Context: Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him an alien, not only in his native place, but even in his own home. Often more so than the foreign born who generally falls in with the established.

Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900), p. 251
Other works

Source: Sanitary Economy (1850), p. 18

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 2 “Do You Believe in Magic?” (p. 35)

Source: Let the Great World Spin

The Awakening (1899)
Source: The Awakening, and Selected Stories
Context: The years that are gone seem like dreams -if one might go on sleeping and dreaming- but to wake up and find -oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all ones life.