It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, he thought. "Nothing,” he said aloud. "I went out too far.”. (Ernest Hemingway)

It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, he thought. "Nothing,” he said aloud. "I went out too far.”.

Ernest Hemingway

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