Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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Deep 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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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