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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.

Cormac McCarthy

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
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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Abandonment Betrayal Courage Discover Easy Morning Seek
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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Joy Road Vehicle
He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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Eyes Forever Heart Space Talk World
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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Expectation Thinking Trouble
They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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End Journey Silence Talk Togetherness Travel
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Bad Gratitude Luck Perspective Save Worst Yourself
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Abandonment Decision Life Man Order
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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Deep Existence Hide Knowledge Man
If only my heart were stone.
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Dreams Heart Myself One Liner Stone
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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Human Intelligence Race Recognition Talk Thinking Yourself
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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Journey Possible Reality Thinking Time Victim Way World
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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Hairs Lonely Morning Remember Savage Sleep Storm
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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Beyond Bitter Carry Curse Death Live Memories Remember
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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Believe Myself
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

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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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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