I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when …

Ernest Hemingway
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I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition, p.89, Simon and Schuster
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