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Quotation from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James

“You were to suffer your fate. That was not necessarily to know it”

Henry James (spoken by May Bartram)

The Beast in the Jungle, Chapter V (1915 Martin Secker edition (Project Gutenberg #1093))

May, near death, answers Marcher's protest that he cannot have suffered a fate he never felt.

Citation: "You were to suffer your fate. That was not necessarily to know it" — Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle, Chapter V (1915 Martin Secker edition (Project Gutenberg #1093)). (id henry-james-the-beast-in-the-jungle-q7)

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