But man is not made for defeat.A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
>>25271452Why was he so enamored with communism?
>>25271452What can be defeated if not a man?
>>25271461I think he was more so on the libertarian side of the left. He just like Castro as well.>>25271465Nothing. There is no such thing as defeat.
>>25271452Op here againI just want to tell you guys that this quote made me get up from my bed and take a showerI remain undefeated (also a fantastic Hemingway short story as well).
>>25271452Have a man, have 2.
>>25271452But then he talks about how the world breaks everyone in the end and to my mind to be broken is to be defeated. Others may have different views on that obviously.
>>25271670I feel like his characters go through hell and life drags them through the dirt but they still remain hopeful and try to put up a fight. I think that's what grants them a strange sort of victory in the end. They got up when they were knocked down.
>>25271681Broken implies a certain finality to me. I think he used it in a different context than how I do.
>>25271461Because he felt the common, working man was the highest expression of humanity, that it was man as a mountain mover and civilization builder, man as he feeds all and dies for few
>kills himselfI guess in the end, only man can defeat himself.
For Sale: Man Destroyed, Never Defeated
>>25271868the fucker was a genius
