So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson…

Cormac McCarthy
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So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy, p.143, Vintage
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