From Cormac McCarthy: “Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.”
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Quote of the day 03/22/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.”
Quote of the day 03/21/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. WeContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/21/24”
Quote of the day 03/20/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.”
Quote of the day 03/18/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately beContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/18/24”
Quote of the day 03/17/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening andContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/17/24”
Quote of the day 03/14/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it. You understand what I’m sayin?”
Quote of the day 03/13/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”
Quote of the day 03/12/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The point is there ain’t no point.”
Quote of the day 03/10/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “The more clearly you become conscious of the frailty, vanity, and dream-like quality of all things, the more clearly will you also become conscious of the eternity of your own inner being; because it is only in contrast to this that the aforesaid quality of things becomes evident, just as you perceivedContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/10/24”
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