Quotation by

Ernest Hemingway

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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Hemingway suggests that your sense of right and wrong comes from your own emotional reactions after an action. If you feel positive afterward, the action is moral; if you feel negative, it is immoral.

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