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Ernest Hemingway1899–1961

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

Ernest Hemingway on honor

Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 9

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