Cormac McCarthy Quotes About Desire
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People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
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Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
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It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.
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The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
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Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
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