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- It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was…
- The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way.…
- Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their…
- It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in…
- Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events…
- In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms,…
- He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
- The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A…
- He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold…
- He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on…
- A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect…
- She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save…
- Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
- Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again…
- Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen…
- Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has…
- If only my heart were stone.
- Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to…
- The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain…
- Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they…
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