“There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.”

—  Ernest Hemingway, book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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