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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.
Approximate author period: c. 1930 AD · modern
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- Ernest Hemingway
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- Approximate author period: c. 1930 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1899 to 1961; Wikidata Q23434, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23434 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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