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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

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Passage of time Aging Living life to the fullest Wasting time Life

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1926

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Ernest Hemingway

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

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