I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that th… - Cormac McCarthy

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Books lie, he said.
God dont lie.
No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words.
He held up a chunk of rock.
He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.
The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools.

Schopenhauer says somewhere that if the entire universe should vanish the only thing left would be music.