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Full Idea
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it.
Gist of Idea
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it
Source
Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus [1942], 'Appendix')
Book Ref
Camus,Albert: 'The Myth of Sisyphus', ed/tr. O'Brien,Justin [Penguin 1975], p.115
A Reaction
Nice. It might just as much be fate that you live a happy bourgeois life, as that you inadvertently murder your own father at a crossroads. But you can't avoid the powerful awareness of fate when a road accident occurs.