‘They won’t get us,’ I said. ‘Because you’re too brave. Nothing ever happens to the brave.’
‘They die of course.’
‘But only once.’
‘I don’t know. Who said that?’
‘The coward dies a thousand deaths, but the brave but one?’
‘Of course. Who said it?’
‘I don’t know.’
‘He was probably a coward,’ she said. ‘He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he’s intelligent. He simply doesn’t mention them.’”
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Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms Via: John’s Blog. |
