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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

Cormac McCarthy
Death, Memories, Bitter
Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.184, Pan Macmillan

Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?

Cormac McCarthy
Death, People, Dying

Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.

Cormac McCarthy
Death, Believe, Destiny
Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy”, p.379, Vintage

They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.

Cormac McCarthy
Death, Night, Hug
Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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