“I am no romantic glorifier of the Spanish woman, nor did I ever think of a casual piece as anything much other than a casual piece in any country. But when I am with Maria I love her so that I feel, literally, as though I would die and I never believed in that or thought that it could happen.”

— Ernest Hemingway, book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ch. 13

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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