“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.'
'Yes.”

—  Ernest Hemingway , book The Sun Also Rises

'It's sort of what we have instead of God.'
Lady Brett Ashley to Jake Barnes, in Book 3, Ch. 19
The Sun Also Rises (1926)

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