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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
– Cormac McCarthy

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  3. We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils. – Arthur Machen
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  7. If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay. – Cormac McCarthy
  8. What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return. – Cormac McCarthy
  9. And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. – Cormac McCarthy
  10. There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot. – Cormac McCarthy
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  21. They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship’s wake. – Cormac McCarthy
  22. Don’t take in no strangers while I’m gone.She sighed deeply. They ain’t a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said. – Cormac McCarthy
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  24. His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep. – Cormac McCarthy
  25. They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey. – Cormac McCarthy
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  29. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. – Cormac McCarthy
  30. People always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there. – Cormac McCarthy
  31. Maybe it’s like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him. – Cormac McCarthy
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  33. You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me…. You’ll be all right. – Cormac McCarthy
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