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121 " Everything about him was beautiful, with the sole exception of his jaws "
― Ernest Hemingway , The Old Man and the Sea
122 " Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. "
123 " Le mille volte che già lo aveva dimostrato non avevano importanza. Ora lo stava dimostrando di nuovo. Ogni volta era una volta nuova, e non pensava mai al passato, quando lo faceva. "
124 " Ma, pensò, io le tengo al posto giusto. Soltanto non ho più fortuna. Ma chissà? Forse oggi. Ogni giorno è un nuovo giorno. È meglio quando si ha fortuna. Ma io preferisco essere a posto. Così quando viene sono pronto. "
125 " Non devo fargli aumentare il dolore, pensò. Il mio non importa. Posso controllarlo. Ma il suo dolore può farlo diventare matto. "
126 " The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it. "
127 " Non lo disse ad alta voce perché sapeva che a dirle, le cose belle non succedono. "
128 " El hombre no está hecho para la derrota; un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado. "
129 " Quisiera ser el pez - pensó - con todo lo que tiene frente a mi voluntad y mi inteligencia solamente. "
130 " «Avrei bisogno di una pietra, per il coltello» disse il vecchio dopo avere esaminato la legatura sull’impugnatura del remo. «Avrei dovuto portare una pietra.» Avresti dovuto portare molte cose, pensò. Ma non le hai portate, vecchio. Ora non è il momento di pensare a quello che non hai. Pensa a quello che puoi fare con quello che hai. "
131 " Zaten her şey şu ya da bu biçimde başka bir şeyi öldürmekle meşgul. "
132 " الاستيقاظ مبكِّراً هو وحده الذي يليق بالرجال "
― إرنست همنغواي , The Old Man and the Sea
133 " إنها لحماقة إن يستولي اليأس على الإنسان كما أنى لا أعتقد بان اليأس حقيقـــة "
134 " Now is no time to think of what you do not have.Think of what you can do with that there is "
135 " I think perhaps I can too.But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg. "
136 " During the night two porpoises came around the boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing. He could tell the difference between the blowing noise the male made and the sighing blow of the female.'They are good,' he said. 'They play and make jokes and love one another. They are our brothers like the flying fish. "
137 " I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this," he said. "Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me endure. I'll say a hundred Our Fathers and a hundred Hail Marys. But I cannot say them now."Consider them said, he thought. I'll say them later. "
138 " Then, while the old man was clearing the lines and preparing the harpoon, the male fish jumped high into the air beside the boat to see where the female was and then went down deep, his lavender wings, that were his pectoral fins, spread wide and all his wide lavender stripes showing. He was beautiful, the old man remembered, and he had stayed.That was the saddest thing I ever saw with them, the old man thought. "
139 " It was dark now as it becomes dark quickly after the sun sets in September. He lay against the worn wood of the bow and rested all that he could. The first stars were out. He did not know the name of Rigel but he saw it and knew soon they would all be out and he would have all his distant friends.'The fish is my friend too,' he said aloud. 'I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. "
140 " He took the bait like a male and he pulls like a male and his fight has no panic in it. I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I sin? "