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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.

Cormac McCarthy

It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Education Personal World
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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Important Life Live Luck Man People Work
Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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Drive Hard Life Suicide Worth Yourself
There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Atheist God One Liner Puppet Toy
If only my heart were stone.
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Dreams Heart Myself One Liner Stone
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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Journey Possible Reality Thinking Time Victim Way World
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Lose Pain Save Word
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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Deep Existence Hide Knowledge Man
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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Endurance Gift Himself Misfortune Strength
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Ourselves Past Power Reality Scars Strange
Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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Brief Life Live Short Slave Yourself
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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Control Government People Power Right Rule 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
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Abandonment Decision Life Man Order
Ever step you take is forever.
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Deep Forever Important One Liner Step Worth
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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Dreams Himself Night Return Wake Up World

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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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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