The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWe 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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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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