“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”

—  Ernest Hemingway, book Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 11

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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