Destiny Quote by Denis Johnson

““You have to see fate as a design, a pattern, and the will as the knife, the blade, the thing slicing through the fabric...””

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“You’ve never felt good. Your suffering protects you. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free.”

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“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose…

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“Everything is arranged," John Robertson told me. Thank God." I forgot to mention that we appear to have one small problem," he said. Okay..."…

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Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what…

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He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's…

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I’d been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I’d even known, for three days under a phony…

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“All of this while I left lifted by a strange new medium, a strange element--I now tell you that I was newly buoyant in…

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“He didn’t know what country he was in, but he was at home in the universe.”

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“There's a dizzying thrill in a philosophy that can only be tested by suicide.”

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I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

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“Who said it? – probably Confucius – “I can’t beat a sculpture from a stone with a sledgehammer; I can’t free the soul of…

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“A bus came. I climbed aboard and sat on the plastic seat while the things of our city turned in the windows like the…

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... War on the destiny of man! Doom on the sun! Before death takes you, O take back this.

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Anatomy is destiny.

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“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.”

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“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.”

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Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

Christoph Martin Wieland

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There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob…

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“It's morning now, and I miss the soft rasp of her voice already. Ugh. I'm in trouble, aren't I?”

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You can't choose what stays and what stays away.

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“Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.”

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Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

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“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…

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“Destiny is the ordained intention God has sacredly prepared with your name on it.”

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