All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. (Cormac McCarthy)

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.

Cormac McCarthy

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