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At the Curie Institute, one of the highest goals for a physicist, I found myself empty. Beaten up by disbelief, I kept going because of inertia, which my soul rejected.

Quote by Ernesto Sabato about work, purpose, soul

Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions.

Quote by Ernesto Sabato about literature, dream, workers, heads

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about man

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about punishment, man

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about bad luck, moral, bad, good, good luck

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about books, good, good luck

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about common sense, books, things, good, good luck

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about time, life

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about things

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about things

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about time, man

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about defeat, man

Courage is grace under pressure.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about grace, courage

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about cowardice, ability, imagination

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about cowardice, ability, imagination

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about word, use, moral

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about attack