The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
CORMAC MCCARTHYEver step you take is forever.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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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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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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