Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but m…

Ernest Hemingway
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Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition, p.201, Simon and Schuster
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