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predestined

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of Predestine

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Intimates are predestined. Henry Adams

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude. Emil Cioran

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them. Friedrich Nietzsche

Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined. Napoleon Bonaparte

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it. Georges Bernanos

Adams was content to read Darwin, especially his "Origin of Species" and his "Voyage of the Beagle." He was a Darwinist before the letter; a predestined follower of the tide; but he was hardly trained to follow Darwin's evidences. Henry Adams

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