"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. "
— Umberto Eco

"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."
— Umberto Eco

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was."
— Ernest Hemingway

"The first draft of anything is shit."
— Ernest Hemingway

"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
— Ernest Hemingway

"How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time."
— Ernest Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls)

"No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

"Now is no time
to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do
with that there is "
— Ernest Hemingway

""All American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn...American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since. "
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— Ernest Hemingway

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. "
— Ernest Hemingway

"It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
— Ernest Hemingway