How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry w…

Cormac McCarthy
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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. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). Suttree, p.184, Pan Macmillan
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