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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

Cormac McCarthy

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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Gold Heaven Myself Paper Perfection Room Wasted Time
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
He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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Endurance Gift Himself Misfortune Strength
When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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Death Yourself
It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Education Personal World
The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Abandonment Cry Earth Mom Nature Sound Wind
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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Burn Fire Flame Hide Inspirational
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Bad Gratitude Luck Perspective Save Worst Yourself
One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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Age Death Old Sadness Yourself
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
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
And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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Darkness Dreams Fire Myself Wake Up
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Ourselves Past Power Reality Scars Strange
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Abandonment Decision Life Man Order
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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Human Misery Worst
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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Important Life Live Luck Man People Work

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