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But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope), ...
— Ernest Hemingway
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.
— Ernest Hemingway
It was not so much that he lied as that there was no truth to tell. He had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with the best of the same places, and some new ones.
— Ernest Hemingway
Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts. Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea.
— Ernest Hemingway
But when I am with Maria I love her so that I feel, literally, as though I would die and I never believed in that nor thought that it could happen. So if your life trades its seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.
— Ernest Hemingway
You go along your whole life and they seem as though they mean something and they always end up not meaning anything.
— Ernest Hemingway
So if your life trades its seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the
— Ernest Hemingway
I would like to have it for my whole life. You will, the other part of him said. You will. You have it _now_ and that is all your whole life is; now.
— Ernest Hemingway
But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope), he thought and so you had better take what time there is and be very thankful for it.
— Ernest Hemingway
Don't think about that either. If you don't think about it, it doesn't exist. The hell it doesn't. But that's the system I'm going on, he thought.
— Ernest Hemingway
But the world they were in was not the world he was in.
— Ernest Hemingway
If you are breathing, you are still alive. If you are alive, then you are still here, physically, on this planet. If you are still here, then you have not completed what you were put on earth to do. If you have not completed what you were put on earth to do … that means your very purpose has not yet been fulfilled. If your purpose has not yet been fulfilled, then the most important part of your life has not yet been lived.
— Andy Andrews