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" There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. "
Ernest Hemingway
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" There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. "
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