“We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.”
Source: Lolita
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Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977Related quotes
“We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.”
Source: How They Met, and Other Stories
“I don't intend to share fate,
Fate which is a universal loneliness.”
"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.”
“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.”
Source: The Wife
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)
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“Conservatism is alien to the very nature of capitalism.”
Source: Odyssey of a Friend (1969), p. 229