“There isn’t always an explanation for everything.”
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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“I don’t know,” I said. “There isn’t always an explanation for everything.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Oh, isn’t there? I was brought up to think there was.”
“That’s awfully nice.”
“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
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