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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.
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I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.
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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
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And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.
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