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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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pain
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Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too."
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love
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Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
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All thinking men are atheists.
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inspirational
atheism
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
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mortality
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You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.
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But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
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self-awareness
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The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I'm not brave any more darling. I'm all broken. They've broken me.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
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There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.
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Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
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spring
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So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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wrong
right-and-wrong
right
morals
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But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
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Ernest Hemingway |
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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
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self-sacrifice
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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wisdom
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Isn't it pretty to think so.
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
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I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.
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Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
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the-present
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Ernest Hemingway |
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When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
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Ernest Hemingway |
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There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
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love
ernest-hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I am always in love.
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hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway |
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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writing
true-to-life
skill
characters
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God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
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wine
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I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
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