4 free books by Ernest Hemingway. 3 you can read right here.
Born 1899 in Oak Park · Died 1961 in Ketchum
writer, novelist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist · United States
Notable works: Hills Like White Elephants, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Old Man and the Sea, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, A Farewell to Arms
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From Project Gutenberg e-text #75201 (public domain in the USA).
Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others.
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.