The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden …

Cormac McCarthy
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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. -The Judge
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He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. -The Judge

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