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Literature · Reflection

ERNEST HEMINGWAY ~ IMMORTALITY

16 October 2015

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Ernest Hemingway

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