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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.

Cormac McCarthy

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
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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Destruction Fragile Love Myself Thinking
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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God Man Strange War
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
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
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Deep Escape Leaving Stay
There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Atheist God One Liner Puppet Toy
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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Believe Blood Fools Greedy History Love Repeat Save True
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
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
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Behavior Forget Human Mindset Remember Yourself
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 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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Deep Empty God Goodness Heart Life Reality Stand Start Truth Young
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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Dreams Inspirational Life Motivational Wait Wasted Time World
It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Education Personal World
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

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