“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
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