Dan

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
― Nadine Gordimer