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Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with

Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

Haruki Murakami
Eye, Fate, Play
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 11, 2012

Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.

Haruki Murakami
Fate, Stranger, Seems

A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

Haruki Murakami
Fate, Destiny, Looks
Haruki Murakami (2007). “Vintage Murakami”, p.161, Vintage

And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have undertaken it, because they really and truly were each other's 100% perfect lovers, and it was a miracle that they had ever met. But it was impossible for them to know this, young as they were. The cold, indifferent waves of fate proceeded to toss them unmercifully.

Haruki Murakami
Fate, Perfect, Miracle

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.

Haruki Murakami
Fate, Storm, Adjusting
"Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami. Chapter One, September 12, 2002.

Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.

Haruki Murakami
Hate, Fate, Guy
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1994.

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