"But is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?
"Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup.
"Necessity knows no magic formulae - they are all left to chance. If a love is unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders."
- From The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 48
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