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“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Be a damn fire eater now. He'd seen it in the war work the same way. More of a change than any loss of virginity. Fear gone like an operation. Something else grew in its place. Main thing a man had. Made him into a man. Women knew it too. No bloody fear.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Short Stories

“Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily. Moreover, his confusion was significant, whereas her order was not.”
― Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts

“what goes on in the sea is of no interest to the rock”
― Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts

“That which we give makes us richer, that which is hoarded is lost”
― Shota Rustaveli, The Knight in the Panther's Skin

“Woe to the man who trusts and puts faith in the smiles of a woman”
― Shota Rustaveli