"In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen."

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The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.

— Clarice Lispector