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Butcher's Crossing by John Williams The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville How to Know a Person by David Brooks Angel Down by Daniel Kraus
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River Stories
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Cormac McCarthy
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time
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Cormac McCarthy
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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Michel de Montaigne
“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
tags: learning, philosophy, wisdom
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