“I don't like such "great questions" - my view is that life consists of a million little questions and that it is always only the totality of those that really matters.”
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“You can even make facts lie.”
― La herencia de Eszter
― La herencia de Eszter
“I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem later when we are reminiscing and taking stock.”
― Esther's Inheritance
― Esther's Inheritance
“And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.”
― Embers
― Embers
“It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it to enter. No one is strong enough or cunning enough to avert by word or deed the misfortune that is rooted in the iron laws of his character and his life.”
― Embers
― Embers
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