he quote of Hemingway's sounds bleak doesn't it but it is actually pointing at a rather poignant truth...
Life kills the Ego while birthing the true Self, leaving us to die twice - which puts me in mind of Emily Dickinson's poem...
My life closed twice before its close (96)
Emily Dickinson
1830 –1886
My life closed twice before its close—
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me
So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
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