>"If people bring so much courage into this world, the world has to
>kill them to break them, so of course it kills them." I don't think I
>have ever heard this particular quote before, but it brought to mind
>another one. When I did a quick search to find the author of the
>second quote, I was surprised to find that it was actually the second
>part of the first. "The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many
>are strong at the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway

I'm not fond of Hemingway in general, but the passage both those quotations come from has always been a favorite of mine. The second bit you quoted above ("The world breaks everyone...") is in Year's End Confrontation Blues - Wakaba and Kate reflect upon it while helping Utena deal with the bad memories her clash with Vigdis Brightblade stirred up.

A fuller form of the quotation appeared way back in Neon Exodus Evangelion 3:6. DJ quotes it when he's talking with Asuka about her mother's suicide:

	DJ took a deep breath, let it out slowly.  "Perhaps it wasn't
that she was a coward... perhaps it was that she was too brave."
	"What do you mean?"
	"'If people bring so much courage to this world the world has
to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them,'" DJ quoted.
"'The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong in the
broken places.  But those that will not break, it kills.  It kills the
very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.'"

--G.
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