There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBut there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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.
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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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