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“Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.” Honoré de Balzac, “Letters of Two Brides” - 1841

“Nothing in this world happens by chance.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“One Life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us forevermore!” Thomas Carlyle, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History” - 1841

“chance encounters are what keep us going.” Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore” - 2002

“The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.” Jules Verne, “Around the World in 80 Days” - 1873

“Poor chance! but hope is so firmly rooted in the heart of man!” Jules Verne, “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” - 1870

“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.” Henry James, “The Ambassadors” - 1903

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” - 1887

“stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.” Stephen King, “11/22/63” - 2011

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, “Nausea” - 1938

“Everyone needs a chance to evolve.” JAY-Z, “Decoded” - 2010

“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.” William Shakespeare, “The Winter's Tale” - 1623

“Many are the strange chances of the world, . . . and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Silmarillion” - 1977

“Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“You should use what you have, and whatever you may chance to be doing, do it with all your might.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, “On Old Age” - 44 BC

“The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.” Alexis de Tocqueville, “Democracy in America” - 1835

“I mean, it’s a good job we’ve got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we’d really be in trouble!” Terry Pratchett, “Guards! Guards!” - 1989

“All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was always controlling who got a chance and who didn't.” Charles Bukowski, “Ham on Rye” - 1982

“however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.” Roald Dahl, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” - 1964

“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride … and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well … maybe chalk it off to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.” Hunter S. Thompson, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” - 1971

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