Fate

“J'ai toujours dit que c'est pas moi qui ait choisi La Mort à Venise, c'est La Mort à Venise qui m'a choisi.”

“The Arab is the master of destiny.”

“I don't think you decide to become a writer — I think it's decided for you. I think it's an affliction.”

“People tell me I am the unluckiest F1 driver of my era, but actually I’m the lucky one.”

“No queda otra, no hay evasiva, es algo ineludible.”

“Cinematograful biruie astfel o fatalitate, dând şi actorului acces la un pic de nemurire…”

“I am a man who has been ‘kicked’ by God, just as a boy kicks a ball in the direction he wants it to go.”

“I think I was always meant to be an artist.”

“Minha existência poderia ter ficado encoberta pelas muitas montanhas que encobrem as Minas Gerais se, um dia, uma trupe de circo não tivesse passado por lá.”

“Nothing was planned, it just happened.”

“Praise be to God who taught with the pen and honored it with the oath, and wrote what He decreed and apportioned.”

“A writer is a man marked by fate; he is put into the world to lay bare his own soul before the spiritually hungry.”