Who said “Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.”?

“Whatever limits us we call fate.”

“Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.”

“All human things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”

“Fate keeps on happening.”

“There is no armor against fate.”

“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”

“Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.”

“Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.”

“Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.”

“Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.”

“Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.”