“God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... 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.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
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