From Cormac McCarthy: “The eye turned to the fire gave back no light and he closed it with his thumb and sat by her and put his hand upon her bloodied forehead and closed his own eyes that he could see her running in the mountains, running in the starlight where the grass was wetContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/30/24”
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Quote of the day 02/04/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
On the dead
The one you love may be dead, but they are not gone. They existed, and they always will have existed. Nothing can undo that. They are still there, frozen in time. You can always return there – to the memory. It exists still in your mind. Not in an intangible spirit world, but as aContinue reading “On the dead”
The deer carcass
There was a deer carcass in the road on my way to work today. All these sad people going somewhere and a deer carcass in the middle of everything. How strange that we should be so concerned with mundane things when death is all around us.
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