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People complain about the bad things that happen to them that they don't deserve, but they seldom mention the good. About what they have done to deserve them things.
No Country for Old Men
I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
No Country for Old Men
Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
No Country for Old Men
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
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.
All the Pretty Horses
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
All the Pretty Horses
Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
The Crossing
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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