Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
 Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952). copy citation

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“But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.
"I told the boy I was a strange old man," he said. "Now is when I must prove it."
The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
I wish he'd sleep and I could sleep and dream about the lions, he thought. Why are the lions the main thing that is left? Don't think, old man, he said to himself. Rest gently now against the wood and think of nothing.” source

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