Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
("All the Pretty Horses")
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The boy who rode on slightly before him sat a horse not only as if he'd been born to it which he was but as if were he begot by malice or mischance into some queer land where horses never were he would have found them anyway. Would have known that there was something missing for the world to be right or he right in it and would have set forth to wander wherever it was needed for as long as it took until he came upon one and he would have known that that was what he sought and it would have been.Cormac McCarthy
That which exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
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That the boy was all that stood between him and death.
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He thought perhaps if he dreamt of him enough he'd go away forever and be dead among his kind
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There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.
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Scared money canÆt win and a worried man canÆt love.
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