“My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren’t with me I haven’t a thing in the world.”
Ernest Hemingway
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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“My life used to be full of everything,” I said. “Now if you aren’t with me I haven’t a thing in the world.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Every day above earth is a good day.”
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“But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it.”
— Albert Einstein Disputed“The thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source