Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only br…

Cormac McCarthy
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Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). Cities of the Plain, p.135, Pan Macmillan
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