Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death…

Ernest Hemingway
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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2002). Death in the Afternoon, p.77, Simon and Schuster
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