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 LispectorWhat I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.
Clarice Lispector