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We appear to go through life reacting directly to events and all else in the world. That appearance is an illusion. We react to our judgments and opinions – to our thoughts about things, not to things themselves.
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“I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.”
― All The Pretty Horses
― All The Pretty Horses
“If I dont go will you go anyways?
John Grady sat up and put his hat on. I'm already gone, he said.”
― All the Pretty Horses
John Grady sat up and put his hat on. I'm already gone, he said.”
― All the Pretty Horses
“He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his own doing.”
― Cities of the Plain
― Cities of the Plain
“But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.”
― Hannah Coulter
― Hannah Coulter
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