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It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.

It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.
– Donna Tartt

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  1. Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and gravel to it. – Donna Tartt
  2. A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence. – James Rozoff
  3. The ultimate purpose of psychology is to release from psychology. – Shai Tubali
  4. Fate.A word meaning destiny.Fate. A word meaning doom. – Colleen Hoover
  5. A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing. – Donna Tartt
  6. …as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch. – Donna Tartt
  7. That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility. – Donna Tartt
  8. It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare. – Donna Tartt
  9. their reality was far more interesting than any idealized version could possibly be – Donna Tartt
  10. What’s worth living for? what’s worth dying for? what’s completely foolish to pursue? – Donna Tartt
  11. Everyone basically has one aria to sing over their entire life. – Donna Tartt
  12. When we are sad…it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don’t change. – Donna Tartt
  13. …with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object. – Donna Tartt
  14. When we are sad-”at least I am like this-”it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to the things that don’t change. – Donna Tartt
  15. He looked very tired, a regard which manifested itself not in dark circles, or pallor, but a dreamy and bright-cheeked sadness. – Donna Tartt
  16. …not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. – Donna Tartt
  17. Birds can sing and fish can swim and I can do this. – Donna Tartt
  18. I sometimes get the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture. – Donna Tartt
  19. . . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name? – Donna Tartt
  20. The most satisfying of languages, Latin. – Donna Tartt
  21. It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars. – Donna Tartt
  22. I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone’s life when character is fixed forever. – Donna Tartt
  23. Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found? – Donna Tartt
  24. It’s a long story. I’ll make it short as I can. – Donna Tartt
  25. The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. – Donna Tartt
  26. Asparagus is in season. – Donna Tartt
  27. I think this goes more to the idea of ‘relentless irony’ than ‘divine providence. – Donna Tartt
  28. Mais, vrai, J’ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I’d always hoped that someday I’d be able to use it. – Donna Tartt
  29. O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  30. Don’t let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice. – DB Harrop
  31. People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past. – Gordon W Allport
  32. Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year. – Dean Koontz
  33. Dreams are built around the word hello, but in the end fate only knows the word goodbye. – Shannon L Alder
  34. Locating God’s Word that describes the true picture of your future is the key that unlocks the mystery of the Word, which is called Dream. – Benjamin Suulola
  35. A word is a word is another word more beautiful because of the former and the next and the circle and sun they create. – Meia Geddes
  36. God’s word is the way to God himself. If you miss the word of God, you will miss God. Jesus is the word! – Israelmore Ayivor
  37. Noah got a word from God then built upon that word. Then when the storm came he stood on what he built according to the word of God! – Joe Joe Dawson
  38. We weren’t a couple, but friends didn’t spoon every night. Fate and I were officially in relationship-no-man’s-land. – Donna Augustine
  39. Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will – Donna Leon
  40. We do not choose our fate, we can only choose if we accept it. Fate will take us where it will, whether we will it or not.- (Sister Mira) – Brenda Cothern

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