Novalis Quotes about Fate
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
Heinrich von Ofterdingen bk. 2 (1802). Often quoted as "character is destiny" or "character is fate." See George Eliot 6; Heraclitus 2
"Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, translated by W.J. Strachan, 1972.