“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.” - Cormac McCarthy
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“Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.” - Cormac McCarthy
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"He tried to think of something to say but he could not. He'd had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and dull despair." - Cormac McCarthy
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“Men of God and men of war have strange affinities” - Cormac McCarthy

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“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 Road

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