“There was among the tribes in the fighting zone a nervous enthusiasm common, I suppose, to all national risings, but strangely disquieting to one from a land so long delivered that national freedom had become like the water in our mouths, tasteless.”
― Seven Pillars of Wisdom
― Seven Pillars of Wisdom
“Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.”
― The Monstrumologist
― The Monstrumologist
“What does it matter who a person is or who they have been? Let them think what they like. We're all so many people, aren't we, nowadays? So confusing it is, I don't know how anyone keeps track. There are the people we are inside, then the people we used to be, then there are the people other people think we are.”
― Painter of Silence
― Painter of Silence
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
― Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
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