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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

Cormac McCarthy

There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Defeat Difference Inspirational Motivational Quit
You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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Fix Let Go Problem Repair Yourself
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
Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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Act End Oneself Talk
And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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Beyond Death Different Man Sleep Sun Walk World
What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Enemy Food Man Share Togetherness
Ever step you take is forever.
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Deep Forever Important One Liner Step Worth
It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Education Personal World
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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Beyond Bitter Carry Curse Death Live Memories Remember
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Deep Escape Leaving Stay
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
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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Count Life Morning Thinking Wake Up Yourself
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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God Human Patience Rude See Sun
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Drive Hard Life Suicide Worth Yourself
She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Heart Kill Man Secret Talk Woman

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

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