For Whom the Bell Tolls (Primary source)
Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, published in 1940, is a powerful and introspective novel set during the Spanish Civil War. The story follows Robert Jordan, an American volunteer fighting with the anti-fascist Republican forces. As a dynamiter assigned to blow up a bridge critical to an upcoming Republican offensive, Jordan’s mission becomes a lens through which Hemingway explores themes of duty, sacrifice, love, death, and the complex nature of war.
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“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
— Ernest Hemingway“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
— Ernest Hemingway“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
— Ernest Hemingway“How did you go bankrupt? Two ways, gradually and then suddenly.”
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“Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you.”
— Ernest Hemingway“Lost time is never found again.”
— Benjamin Franklin“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
— Ernest Hemingway“It is never hopeless. But sometimes I cannot hope. I try always to hope but sometimes I cannot.”
— Ernest Hemingway