But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
("A Farewell to Arms")
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Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.Ernest Hemingway
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you dies each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry 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 had died for no reason.
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I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
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Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
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Unlike all other forms of lute or combat the conditions are that the winner shall take nothing neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notions of glory nor, if he wins far enough, shall there be any reward within himself.
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