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I think fate doesn't just happen,you need to arrive at it, and if the events in your life come together and start to arrange themselves into a plot, then it may cast you quite far...It is most interesting that a person may not even suspect that this is happening to him,or may conceive what has happened based on a false premise,by attempting to systematize events to match his own world view.But fate has his own logic.

The life of someone who has been sentenced to death is different from the life of a normal person in only one way: the one knows exactly when he will die, and the regular person is in the dark about it, and consequently it seems he can live forever, even though it's entirely possible that he could be killed in a catastrophic event the following day.Death isn't frightening by itself.What's frightening is expecting it.

You can't live in constant awareness of your mortality. You had to forget about it, and though these thoughts came to you anyway, you had to drive them away, to smother them, otherwise they could take root in your consciousness and they would make your life a misery.You can't think about the fact that you'll die.Otherwise you might go mad.There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

Artyom was surprised again how varied, how different music can be and how much it can affect one's mood.

When two members of a family or two intimate friends are separated, and one goes abroad and one remains at home, the return of the relative or friend who has been travelling always seems to place the relative or friend who has been staying at home at a painful disadvantage when the two first meet.

Time is like mercury: scatter it and it will grow together again, it will again find its own integrity and indeterminacy. People tamed it, shackled it into pocket-watches and stop-watches —and for those that hold time on a chain, time flows evenly. But try to free it and you will see: it flows differently for different people(...)

But the war exhausted resources. The war eliminated the best people. The war was generally exhausting. And those that survived grow tired of it.