It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHe 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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If only my heart were stone.
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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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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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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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