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There is no God and we are his prophets.
From The Road
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Topic: Religion
He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
From Cities of the Plain
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Topic: Religion
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
From The Road
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Topic: Life
He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.
From All the Pretty Horses
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Topic: Life
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.
From All the Pretty Horses
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Topic: Death
And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
From The Road
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Topic: Death
When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?
From The Road
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Topic: Death
He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
From Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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Topic: Death
Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock?
From The Road
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Topic: Death
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
From Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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Topic: Life
The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.
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Topic: Philosophical
It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.
From The Crossing
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Topic: Death
It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
From The Sunset Limited
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Topic: Education
Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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Topic: Funny, Life
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, dont you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
From The Road
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Topic: Life
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
From The Road
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Topic: Death
Omul își caută propriul destin[...], destinul fiecaruia e la fel de mare ca lumea în care trăiește și conține în sine toate contradictiile. Deșertul ăsta unde atâția au căzut înfrânți e întins și cere o inimă mare, dar mai e și esențialmente gol. E aspru, e sterp. Natura lui adevărată e piatra.
From Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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Topic: Motivational
I've studied much and learned little.
From The Passenger
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Topic: Education
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
From The Road
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Topic: Hope, Inspirational
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
From The Road
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Topic: Life
A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he don't want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It ain't the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything.
From Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
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Topic: Philosophical
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.
From All the Pretty Horses
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Topic: Life
There is no God and we are his prophets.
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Religion
He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
From Cities of the Plain
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XXX
Topic: Religion
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Life
He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.
From All the Pretty Horses
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XXX
Topic: Life
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.
From All the Pretty Horses
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XXX
Topic: Death
And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Death
When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Death
He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
From Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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XXX
Topic: Death
Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock?
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Death
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
From Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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XXX
Topic: Life
The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.
From The Crossing
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XXX
Topic: Death
It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
From The Sunset Limited
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XXX
Topic: Education
Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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XXX
Topic: Funny, Life
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, dont you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Life
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Death
Omul își caută propriul destin[...], destinul fiecaruia e la fel de mare ca lumea în care trăiește și conține în sine toate contradictiile. Deșertul ăsta unde atâția au căzut înfrânți e întins și cere o inimă mare, dar mai e și esențialmente gol. E aspru, e sterp. Natura lui adevărată e piatra.
From Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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XXX
Topic: Motivational
I've studied much and learned little.
From The Passenger
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XXX
Topic: Education
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Hope, Inspirational
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Life
A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he don't want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It ain't the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything.
From Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
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XXX
Topic: Philosophical
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.
From All the Pretty Horses
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XXX
Topic: Life
There is no God and we are his prophets.
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Religion
He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
From Cities of the Plain
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XXX
Topic: Religion
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Life
He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.
From All the Pretty Horses
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XXX
Topic: Life
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.
From All the Pretty Horses
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XXX
Topic: Death
And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Death
When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Death
He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
From Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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XXX
Topic: Death
Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock?
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Death
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
From Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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XXX
Topic: Life
The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.
From The Crossing
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XXX
Topic: Death
It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
From The Sunset Limited
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XXX
Topic: Education
Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Funny, Life
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, dont you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Life
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Death
Omul își caută propriul destin[...], destinul fiecaruia e la fel de mare ca lumea în care trăiește și conține în sine toate contradictiile. Deșertul ăsta unde atâția au căzut înfrânți e întins și cere o inimă mare, dar mai e și esențialmente gol. E aspru, e sterp. Natura lui adevărată e piatra.
From Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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XXX
Topic: Motivational
I've studied much and learned little.
From The Passenger
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XXX
Topic: Education
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Hope, Inspirational
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
From The Road
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XXX
Topic: Life
A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he don't want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It ain't the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything.
From Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
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XXX
Topic: Philosophical
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.
From All the Pretty Horses
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XXX
Topic: Life