"Live it up so you can write..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“Everyone has his own conscience,and there should be no rules abouthow a conscience should function.”

“I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.”

“To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?”

“Like water spilt upon the ground--alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass!”

“When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.”

“Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.”

“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”

“I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.”