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“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
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