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  1. Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing

    Because he knows what perhaps you do not. That the past cannot be mended.
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  2. Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing

    The consequences of an act are often quite different from what one would guess. You must be sure that the intention in your heart is large enough to contain all wrong turnings, all disappointments
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  3. Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing

    I think it is better to make a study of smaller things. Then the larger will follow. In smaller things one can progress. There one's efforts are repaid."
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  4. Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing

    The task of the narrator is not an easy one, he said. He appears to be required to choose his tale from among the many that are possible. But of course that is not the case. The case is rather to make many of the one.
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  5. Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing

    I had this dream.What dream.I had it twice.Well what was it.There was this big fire out on the dry lake.There aint nothin to burn on a dry lake.I know it.What happened.These people were burnin. The lake was on fire and they was burnin up.It's probably somethin you ate.I had the same dream twice.Maybe you ate the same thing twice.I dont think so.
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  6. Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing

    Every word we speak is a vanity. Every breath taken that does not bless is an affront. Bear closely with me now. There is another who will hear what you never spoke. Stones themselves are made of air. What they have power to crush never lived. In the end we shall all of us be only what we have made of God. For nothing is real save his grace.
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  7. Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing

    Todo está bien?
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  8. Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing

    If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People
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  9. Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing

    He said that the world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them and therefore to know it one must look there and come to know those hearts and to do this one must live with men and not simply pass among them.
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  10. Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing

    The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less. The
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  11. Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing

    He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them. Y
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  12. Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing

    Men do not turn from God so easily you see. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of Him. By
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