This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
("Blood Meridian")
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Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.
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The men poured gasoline on them and burned them alive, having no remedy for evil but only for the image of it as they conceived it to be.
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In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms, but not in its substance. And a deep conviction that nothing can be proven except that it be made to bleed. Virgins, bulls, men. Ultimately God himself.
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Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.
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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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