Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
What the fates have writ, men shall not erase . . . . How many times he [Lut] had uttered those words. But what exactly did they mean? That one__ fate was inalterably fixed? A man__ entire life? Was there no chance for redemption? Though he had never revealed this to anyone, especially not the elders, he__ long entertained the notion that perhaps not all of a man__ life was preordained. For, if so, what was the point of living? Perhaps, just perhaps, he dared to imagine, impediments were placed in our paths by the gods, and a man was judged by how well he dealt with those obstacles . . . . Instead of a man being wholly defined by his fate, perhaps a man__ very character was defined by his response to the fate that was spun for him. Couldn__ it at least be possible?
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What the fates have writ, men shall not erase . . . . How many times he [Lut] had uttered those words. But what exactly did they mean? That one__ fate was inalterably fixed? A man__ entire life? Was there no chance for redemption? Though he had never revealed this to anyone, especially not the elders, he__ long entertained the notion that perhaps not all of a man__ life was preordained. For, if so, what was the point of living? Perhaps, just perhaps, he dared to imagine, impediments were placed in our paths by the gods, and a man was judged by how well he dealt with those obstacles . . . . Instead of a man being wholly defined by his fate, perhaps a man__ very character was defined by his response to the fate that was spun for him. Couldn__ it at least be possible?
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