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- Ernest Hemingway
- 1929
- “Maybe... you'll fall in love with me all over again. " "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me? "Yes. I want to ruin you. "Good," I said.
- “All thinking men are atheists.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms.
- “If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
- “The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms.
A collection of 25 quotes from Ernest Hemingway's classic novel A Farewell to Arms, about the love and war between a soldier and a nurse in World War I. The quotes cover themes such as love, courage, death, desperation, and wisdom. See the full text and author of each quote on the web page.
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- Chapter 9
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
"I was very glad that the Austrians seemed to want to come back to the town sometime if the war should end, because they did not bombard it to destroy it but only a little in a military way." "All thinking men are atheists."
"It was all as I had left it except that now it was spring. I looked in the door of the big room and saw the major sitting at his desk, the window open and the sunlight coming into the room. He did not see me and I did not know whether to go in and report or go upstairs first and clean up. I decided to go upstairs."
"Miss Barkley was quite tall. She wore what seemed to be a nurse's uniform, was blonde and had a tawny skin and gray eyes. I thought she was very beautiful."
"American in the Italian Army." "There were racks of rockets standing to be touched off to call for help from the artillery or to signal with if the telephone wires were to be cut." "You see I've been leading a sort of a funny life. And I never even talk English. And you are so very beautiful." "We're going to have a strange life."
"I kissed her and saw that her eyes were shut. I kissed both her shut eyes. I thought she was probably a little crazy. It was all right if she was. I did not care what I was getting into. This was better than going every evening to the house for officers where the girls climbed all over you and put your cap on backwards as a sign of affection betwe...
"I went out the door and suddenly I felt lonely and empty. I had treated seeing Catherine very lightly. I had gotten somewhat drunk and had nearly forgotten to come but when I could not see her there I was feeling lonely and hollow."
"There were troops on this road and motor trucks and mules with mountain guns and as we went down, keeping to one side, and across, under a hill beyond the river, the broken houses of the little town that was to be taken."
"I believe we should get the war over." "War is not won by victory." "I ate the end of my piece of cheese and took a swallow of wine. Through the other noise I heard a cough, then came the chuh-chuh-chuh-chuh- then there was a flash, as when a blast-furnace door is swung open, and a roar that started white and went red and on and on in a rushing wi...
"Still even wounded you do not see it. I can tell. I do not see it myself but I feel it a little." "I would be too happy. If I could live there and love God and serve him." "You do. What you tell me about in the nights. That is not love. That is only passion and lust. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to s...
"The next day in the morning we left for Milan and arrived forty-eight hours later. It was a bad trip. We were sidetracked for a long time this side of Mestre and children came and peeked in. I got a little boy to go for a bottle of cognac but he came back and said he could only get grappa." "When I woke I looked around. There was sunlight coming i...
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The reader is unsure of the depth of feeling that inspires Henry’s declaration of love and his honesty about sleeping with other women. This dialogue establishes the importance of illusion in Catherine and Henry’s budding relationship. Next section Important Quotes Explained Page 2. Explanation of the famous quotes in A Farewell to Arms ...
They do not grow wise. They grow careful. But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.
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