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1 " He had never quarreled much with this woman, while with the women that he loved he had quarreled so much they had finally, always, with the corrosion of the quarreling, killed what they had together. He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out. "
― Ernest Hemingway , The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
2 " Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all. "
3 " You did not have to like it because you understood it. He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care "
4 " If he lived by a lie he should try to die by it "
5 " I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed. "
6 " Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude. "
7 " That in some way he could work the fat off his soul the way a fighter went into the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body "
8 " And that was the end of the beginning of that "
9 " Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do "
10 " Love is a dunghill, and I'm the cock that gets on it to crow. "
11 " However you make your living is where your talent lies "
12 " It was not her fault that when he went to her he was already over "
13 " How what she had done could never matter since he knew he could not cure himself of loving her "
14 " When she goes, he though. I'll have all I want. Not all I want but all there is "
15 " I’d like to destroy you a few times in bed. "
16 " You did not have to like it because you understood it. "
17 " It was never what he had done,but always what he could do. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil "
18 " I always like the bad ones. I know he's a bad one of some sort. "
19 " And just then it occurred to him that he was going to die. It came with a rush; not as a rush of water nor of wind; but of a sudden, evil-smelling emptiness and the odd thing was that the hyena slipped lightly along the edge of it. "
20 " — Չե՞ս կարող թողնել, որ մարդ հանգիստ մեռնի, պետք է անպայման պիտակնե՞ր կպցնես։ Ինչ օգուտ, որ ինձ վախկոտ ես անվանում։ "
