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Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

You can wipe out your opponents

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

The world breaks everyone

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

The shortest answer

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Decadence is a difficult word to use

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Cowardice...

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

destroyed but not defeated

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.