He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thoug…

Cormac McCarthy
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He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2013). The Border Trilogy, p.268, Pan Macmillan
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