How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
CORMAC MCCARTHYEver dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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How 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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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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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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There is no later. This is later.
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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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