"So far, about morals, I know only..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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“I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.”
“There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.”
“Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective”
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“Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.”
“In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.”
“The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.”
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“It is a shameful thing to insult a child.”
“Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.”
“A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.”