"A man does not exist until he..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
A man does not exist until he is drunk.
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“No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”
“To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.”
“Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.”
More on Existence
“Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?”
“The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.”
“He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe”