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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Cormac McCarthy

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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Bond Community Deep Grief Oneself Sorrow
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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God Man Strange War
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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Return Time Try Yourself
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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Chance Fate Man Occupation Work
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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Control Government People Power Right Rule Yourself
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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Act End Oneself Talk
If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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Earth Goodness Luck Walk
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Deep Escape Leaving Stay
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
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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Believe Civilization Existence Fools Myself Pretend See
The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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Reason Road Travel Understand
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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Destruction Fragile Love Myself Thinking
And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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Beyond Death Different Man Sleep Sun Walk World
I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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Blame God Grow Up Himself Life Myself Old Opinion Thinking Way
The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Abandonment Cry Earth Mom Nature Sound Wind
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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Carry Fire Inspirational Motivational Reality See Yourself

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