When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.
("The Road")
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He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.Cormac McCarthy
Even in this world, more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.
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It took two days to cross that ashen scabland. The road beyond fell away on every side. It's snowing, the boy said. He looked at the sky. A single gray flake sifting down. He caught it in his hand and watched it expire there like the last host of christendom.
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You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.
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When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy again then you will have given up.
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I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all. And by true I do not mean what is righteous but merely what is so.
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