Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
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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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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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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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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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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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If only my heart were stone.
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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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