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The Old Man and the Sea

The instant Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and international bestseller “While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I’v

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Ernest Hemingway (26)Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1)

“It was too good to last.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

Tagged: Too Good, Last, Love, Relationship, Break Up

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

Tagged: realization, Reflection, Thinking

“It was too good to last.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

Tagged: Inevitable, End

“If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

Tagged: Opinion Matters, Be yourself

“She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

Tagged: kindness, beauty, cruel, Bipolar

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

Tagged: Appreciation, life advice, Encouraging, Be Grateful

“I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

Tagged: True Love, Romantic Message, love quotes

“She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

Tagged: kindness, Beautiful, Kind, cruel

“It’s silly not to hope. It’s a sin he thought.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“It was too good to last.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

Tagged: Surreal, Overwhelming, Possibility

“It was too good to last.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

Tagged: Regret, Expect

“She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

Tagged: Classic, Literature

“If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

Tagged: Talking To Yourself, crazy, Impressions

“It’s silly not to hope. It’s a sin he thought”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

Tagged: Deep

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetic, Sad

“You did not do so badly for something that is worthless. But there was a time when I could not find you.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“He always thought of the sea as la mar, which is what people call her in spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her, but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fisherman, those who used buoys as floats for their lines or had motorboat…”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

““Age is my alarm clock,” the old man said. “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?” “I don’t know,” the boy said. “All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.””

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“Every day above earth is a good day.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com