Milan Kundera
Author: Milan Kundera
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2009)

It is wrong, then to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences (like the meeting of Anna, Vronsky, the railway station, and death), but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life.  For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.