The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affa…

Cormac McCarthy
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The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, p.153, Vintage
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