The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought Ernest Hemingway
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It was a lucky day for this man when he said, "The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars." Although the fish was not man's enemy but his friend, he did not want to kill it. Instead, he wanted to live in peace with the fish. It was only because of man's greed that the fish had to be killed.

Source: The Old Man And The Sea

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