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“There’s no such thing as coincidence. When it comes down to it, everything is ordained. The goddamn Greeks called it destiny.”
what a shame that time passes, don’t you think? what a shame that we die, and get old, and everything good goes galloping away from us.
what you don’t know can’t hurt you, living in ignorance is almost like living in bliss.
Then, humbled and confused and in a burst of utter Mexicanness, I knew that we were ruled by fate and that we would all drown in the storm, and I knew that only the cleverest, myself certainly not included, would stay afloat much longer.
Those were days of deep soul-searching. And yet, at the same time, I have to admit, nothing mattered to me (it’s a contradiction, but that’s the way it was)
When I was done traveling I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
the heart of the matter is knowing whether evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is random or purposeful. If it’s purposeful, we can fight it, it’s hard to defeat, but we have a chance, like two boxers in the same weight class, more or less. If it’s random, on the other hand, we’re fucked, and we’ll just have to hope that God, if He exists, has mercy on us. And that’s what it all comes down to.
in order to be free, which is our most precious desire, we are all slaves before the law.
Thus we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
People only take an interest in their health when they end up in the hospital.
