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41 " In death it would seem that logic leaves a dead man's brain just like love leaves a dead man's heart, and it would seem that nothing worthy lasts forever but we must deny any challenge to our belief there is an eternity for good men even until we draw our last breath. We must attempt to deny it until our eyes get cloudy, until our legs get restless, we must deny it until our mind is confused and our body requires its final sleep. We must deny, deny, deny even if we tragically die alone. "
― Michael Kurcina , We Fight Monsters: Wisdom and inspiration that speak to the warrior's soul
42 " Yesterday is distant, while today is close, and tomorrow may never come. Live your life without fear. "
43 " I wished I was conceived at the first point in human history or died at its end but I live inconsequentially perhaps at its middle and never felt incentivized to truly live. "
44 " The morning starts innocently and the night becomes damned to men who believe wasted time is torture, as they spend a fine and precious day living in the past. "
― Michael Kurcina
45 " We’re living in some stupid times. If you want to see the world go to Hell then give power to stupid, evil people; they’ll do all they can to control those who don’t know or want to know any better. You don’t climb up the ladder of success when you become a Marxist, you climb down. In fact a man loses two positions when he becomes a good, little proletariat; his personhood and his manhood. A man chooses to become a pebble among pebbles when he cannot become a mountain. The new rebel’s goal of today is making men despise themselves by taking what was honorable yesterday and turning it into the prejudices of tomorrow. "
46 " A man who attempts to keep all his pain for himself is likely to give it to others. "
― Michael Kurcina , We Wrestle Silently : Quotes for the Warrior's Soul
47 " Men kill easily with their eyes but let them do it with their hands and most lose their stomach for it. "
48 " Every man should travel the world with a rucksack, to test his appetite for love, truth and violence, and see when he returns if he arrives at his true self. "
49 " In the heart of every beaten child is planted a seed of self-destruction; in that rank dirt they must never let an evil flower bloom. "
50 " Until we become an animal with a bloody mouth and bloody hands, we might never understand our fights with men nor salvage the one hidden inside of us. "
51 " If you want to be a great consumer throw away nearly everything and fill your life with books. "
52 " Whisky and oysters go oddly together like laughter and violence but that doesn’t mean what goes in a man’s stomach or comes out of his soul should ever be paired. "
53 " First, they burn the books, then the men, then the world. "
54 " In the intercourse of a violent life, hatred makes infant monsters of us all. We must never let that bastard child grow. "