It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
CORMAC MCCARTHYDeep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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