’I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises (Primary source)
Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926, is a seminal novel of the Lost Generation—a term used to describe the disillusioned youth who came of age during and after World War I. Set primarily in Paris and Spain during the 1920s, the novel follows a group of American and British expatriates as they grapple with themes of aimlessness, love, masculinity, and the search for meaning in a fractured postwar world.
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“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Every day above earth is a good day.”
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“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Disputed“Don’t think to hunt two hares with one dog.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
— Ayn Rand Disputed“If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn’t you make the most of it?”
— Ayn Rand Disputed