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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.

Cormac McCarthy

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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Best Identity Live Way
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Behavior Forget Human Mindset Remember Yourself
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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Destruction Fragile Love Myself Thinking
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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Believe Civilization Existence Fools Myself Pretend See
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Deep Escape Leaving Stay
There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Atheist God One Liner Puppet Toy
The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Himself Lying Remember Talk Trouble
One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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Age Death Old Sadness Yourself
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Lose Pain Save Word
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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Forever Philosophy Start Step Thinking Yourself
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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Abandonment Betrayal Courage Discover Easy Morning Seek
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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Children God Himself Talk Word
There is no later. This is later.
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Deep Future One Liner Time
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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Carry Fire Inspirational Motivational Reality See Yourself
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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Believe Myself
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Intelligence Man Myself Normal Stupidity Thinking

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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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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