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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

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Perseverance Resilience Defeat Human nature

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1952

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Ernest Hemingway

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

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