We can handle all European themes, handle them without superstition, with an irreverence which can have, and already does have, fortunate consequences.
("Labyrinths")
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Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.
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