“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one.”
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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“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?”
Ernest Hemingway
“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.”
“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“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“Every day above earth is a good day.”
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“Where should we go? I don’t care. Anywhere you want. Anywhere we don’t know people.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Most marriages don’t add two people together. They subtract one from the other.”
— Ian Fleming Primary source“You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Painting is a companion with whom one may hope to walk a great part of life’s journey.”
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