The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American novelist and journalist whose spare, declarative prose style revolutionized twentieth-century fiction. His works - 'The Sun Also Rises,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'The Old Man and the Sea' - and his Nobel Prize (1954) established him as the most influential American writer of his generation.
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