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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

by Cormac McCarthy

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“Within him wrestled invisibly many contrary and irreconcilable feelings, especially the contrast between the greatness that he felt in his soul and the misery and weakness of what he was able to express and reveal before others.”
― Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina

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“But that's how it is on a sailing ship, and in this respect its journey parallels that of life: simply knowing where you want to go isn't enough, because life is a windblown voyage, consisting mainly of the detours imposed by alternating calm and storm.”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

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“Peter didn’t want to change the world: he wanted to fully comprehend it.”
― David James Duncan, The Brothers K

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“We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable.”
― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

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“Everyone hates the boy. It is a complex hatred, one that often causes the haters to feel mean and guilty and to hate themselves for feeling this way about such an accomplished and well-meaning boy, which then tends to make them involuntarily hate the boy even more for arousing such self-hatred. The whole thing is totally confusing and upsetting. People take a lot of aspirin when he's around.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

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