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What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.
For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.
Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.
The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.
The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.
I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.
People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.
See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.
When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.
What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream
Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.
I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it
They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.
I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.
Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.