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

Cormac McCarthy

The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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Boy Fragile Issues Light Night Old Philosophy Reveal Time Trouble
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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God Man Strange War
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
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
All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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Return Time Try Yourself
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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Chance Fate Man Occupation Work
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
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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Bond Community Deep Grief Oneself Sorrow
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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Children God Himself Talk Word
If only my heart were stone.
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Dreams Heart Myself One Liner Stone
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
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
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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Expectation Thinking Trouble
Ever step you take is forever.
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Deep Forever Important One Liner Step Worth
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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Future People Preparation Ready Time
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

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

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