Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and…

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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