“It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world.”
Paulo Coelho book The Pilgrimage
Source: The Pilgrimage
“The world is full of confusing coincidences.”
— Algis Budrys, book Michaelmas
“And a man’s mind insists on making patterns from random data.”
Source: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 7 (p. 102)
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