Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same… — Ernest Hemingway · Skopia

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Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same colour as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea · 1952

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

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