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Happens Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we…
- That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.
- A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have…
- A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even…
- Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless…
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- Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. — Marcus Aurelius
- Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. — Marcus Aurelius
- There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. — Marcus Aurelius
- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
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- A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. — Robert Baden-Powell