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It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is something I don't want to be wrong about.
No Country for Old Men
The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
The Crossing
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings.
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?
No Country for Old Men
You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
No Country for Old Men
I think sometimes people would rather have a bad answer about things than no answer at all.
No Country for Old Men
People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.
No Country for Old Men
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.
The Road
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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