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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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If only my heart were stone.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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