“He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”
Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.”
— Cormac McCarthy, book The Road
Source: The Road
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Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 17, “To Reset the Clock” (p. 173)
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Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet.
Book I, epistle xvii, line 37
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