The old man and the sea (1952) - Ernest Hemingway

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.
(p. 9)


Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and hid determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. How many people will he feed, he thought. But are they worthy to eat him ? No, of course not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behaviour and his great dignity.
(p. 64)