Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
CORMAC MCCARTHYLong 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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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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