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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea · 1952

Quotes

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

Ernest Hemingway · A Farewell to Arms, 1929 · Primary source

“That is just it, work is my element; I was born and made for it. I have found the limits of my legs; I have found the limits of my eyes; but I have never been able to find the limits of my labour.”

Napoleon Bonaparte · The Memorial of Saint Helena, 1824 · Secondary source

“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”

Ernest Hemingway · The Old Man and the Sea, 1952 · Primary source

“Beauty is the quality which makes to endure.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · No reliable source

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

Winston Churchill · No reliable source

Works

Ernest Hemingway · 1952
The Old Man and the Sea

An ageing Cuban fisherman struggles with a giant marlin, testing his endurance, pride, skill and relationship with the natural world.

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