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“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“There isnt always an explanation for everything.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war."
Defeat is worse."
I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“War is not won by victory.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“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 serve.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war.
There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war.
Also they make money out of it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?'
'Of course. Who said it?'
'I don't know.'
'He was probably a coward,' she said. "He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“It is never hopeless. But sometimes I cannot hope. I try always to hope but sometimes I cannot.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at 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. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“She was crying. I comforted her and she stopped crying. But outside it kept on raining.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“They arrested us after breakfast.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to; we never did such things.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“I only like two other things; one is bad for my work and the other is over in half an hour or fifteen minutes. Sometimes less. Sometimes a good deal less.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“I knew I did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes. Nobody had mentioned what the stakes were. It was all right with me.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“I believe that all the people who stand to profit by a war and who help provoke it should be shot on the first day it starts by accredited representatives of the loyal citizens of their country who will fight it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“For three years I looked forward very childishly to the war ending at Christmas. But now I look forward till when our son will be a lieutenant commander.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was bad but not dull.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms