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What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.

What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.

Cormac McCarthy
Smoking, Soul, Flesh
Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.156, Pan Macmillan

The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

Cormac McCarthy
Giving Up, Ideas, Soul
"Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction" by Richard B. Woodward, archive.nytimes.com. April 19, 1992.

But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?

Cormac McCarthy
Men, Soul, Say Anything

He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits.

Cormac McCarthy
Pain, Soul, Might
Cormac McCarthy (2010). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.263, Pan Macmillan

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