“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.”
Ernest Hemingway (verified)
A Farewell to Arms (Primary source)
A Farewell to Arms, published in 1929, is Ernest Hemingway’s semi-autobiographical novel set during World War I. It tells the poignant story of an American ambulance driver, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, serving in the Italian army, and his doomed love affair with a British nurse, Catherine Barkley. The novel explores themes of love and loss, the brutality and futility of war, and the struggle to find meaning in a chaotic, indifferent world.
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“Oh, darling,” she said. “You will be good to me, won’t you?”
Ernest Hemingway (verified)
What the hell, I thought. I stroked her hair and patted her shoulder. She was crying.
“You will, won’t you?” She looked up at me. “Because we’re going to have a strange life.”
“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“Every day above earth is a good day.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“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. 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.”
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“This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.”
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