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“And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
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