He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all a…

Cormac McCarthy
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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 and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2012). All the Pretty Horses, p.260, Pan Macmillan
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