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Cognitively we don't know and will never discover what occasions the cause of our existence, we don't know the purpose of our existence and we don't know why we have to disappear from here once we have been placed here, I don't know, why I have to live this fragmentary existence, which happened to be my lot, instead of a life that perhaps does exist somewhere. Why did I get this lot? This sex, this body, this awareness, this geographic setting, this
fate
, this language, this history, this rented room?
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Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no
fate
.
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"No" — I could never be another person's father,
fate
, god,
"No" — it should never happen to another child, what happened to me; my childhood. (Auschwitz).
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What we usually mean by
fate
is what we least understand, that is to say, ourselves, that subversive, unknown individual constantly plotting against us, whom, estranged and alienated but still bowing with disgust before his might, we call, for the of simplicity,
fate
.
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Born:
November 9, 1929
Died:
March 31, 2016
(aged 86)
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