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“There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.”

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Hamlet says this in the graveyard scene, watching the gravedigger handle the skulls. It is Shakespeare's most quoted line about how much of a life is chosen and how much is simply the shape of the material given to us.

Source: Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1

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