How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
CORMAC MCCARTHYHow 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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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