There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
CORMAC MCCARTHYDeep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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