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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
- Ernest Hemingway
We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
- Ernest Hemingway
I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
- Ernest Hemingway
Fish, the old man said. Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
- Ernest Hemingway
I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.
- Ernest Hemingway
It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it.
- Ernest Hemingway
If the people show too much courage on this world, the society must choke them to break them - and by that, of course, kill them. The society breaks everyone, but after that many become stronger on that broken places. And those it cannot broke, it kills them.
- Ernest Hemingway
You learn in this war if you listen.
- Ernest Hemingway
Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs. He ate the white eggs to give himself strength. He ate them all through May to be strong in September and October for the truly big fish.
- Ernest Hemingway
Black flies, no-see-ums, deer flies, gnats and mosquitoes were instituted by the devil to force people to live in cities where he could get at them better. If it weren't for them everybody would live in the bush and he would be out of work. It was a rather successful invention.
- Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.
- Ernest Hemingway