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fatalism
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synonyms: kismet, karma, ~foredoom ???
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Definition:The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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I did not envy him his devotion to Kurtz, though. He had not meditated over it. It came to him, and he accepted it with a sort of eager fatalism.
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
Joseph Conrad. The Heart of Darkness.
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Somewhere in my fatalism I had expected to die,
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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"You are a lucky man. You will never be killed. Obviously, there is something watching over you. I do not look it, I know, but I am a fatalist.-There are some men who are bom to be merely wounded, others to be killed. Myself, I have not been touched so far. But I know I shall be killed before the war is over."
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.423 (1948)
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"[...] Just to think that from the day you and I were born, Ernest, it was written in the very fabric of our constitutions that when we were twenty-three years and five months old, the third molar in our upper left jaws should begin to fail us! It's really appalling in its unanswerable physical fatalism, when ones comes to think upon it."
Grant Allen. The Beckoning Hand and other stories (1887)
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I felt quite good. Fatalistic, you could say.
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His sister stayed because her fatalistic heart told her that the lethal sickness would follow her, no matter what, to the farthest corner of the earth.
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.48 (1970)
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