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121 " And you'll always love me won't you?YesAnd the rain won't make any difference? No "
― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms
122 " It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home. "
123 " The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?''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. "
124 " We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war.There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war.Also they make money out of it. "
125 " Where should we go?” “I don’t care. Anywhere you want. Anywhere we don’t know people. "
126 " I don't know," I said. "There isn't always an explanation for everything.""Oh, isn't there? I was brought up to think there was.""That's awfully nice. "
127 " I dried my hands and took out my pocket-book from the inside of my tunic hanging on the wall. Rinaldi took the note, folded it without rising from the bed and slid it in his breeches pocket. He smiled, "I must make on Miss Barkley the impression of a man of sufficient wealth. You are my great and good friend and financial protector." "Go to hell," I said. "
128 " My God, what would a man do with a woman like that except worship her? "
129 " Do you suppose it will always go on?""No.""What's to stop it?"It will crack somewhere. "
130 " I don't know. I only think the Austrians will not stop when they have won a victory. It is in defeat that we become Christian.""The Austrians are Christians-- except for the Bosnians.""I don't mean technically Christian. I mean like Our Lord."He said nothing."We are all gentler now because we are beaten. How would our Lord have been f Peter had rescued him in the Garden? "
131 " I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates. "
132 " ... a man doesn't want something reasonable, but practical. "
133 " The fact the book was a tragic one did not make me unhappy since I believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could have only one end. "
134 " 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. "
135 " But those were Frenchmen and you can work out military problems clearly when you are fighting in somebody else's country.""Yes," I replied, "when it is your own country you can not use it so scientifically.""The Russians did, to trap Napoleon.""Yes, but they had plenty of country. If you tried to retreat to trap Napoleon in Italy you would find yourself in Brindiri. "
136 " He lived in Udine and came out in this way nearly every day to see how things were going, and things went very badly. "
137 " Gultā viss šķiet skaisti. "
138 " Here's the reason why the peasant is wise. He's wise because he's beaten from the very start. Give him power and then you'll see how wise he is. "
139 " If you ever live to be as old as I am you will find many things strange.” “You never seem old.” “It is the body that is old. Sometimes I am afraid I will break off a finger as one breaks a stick of chalk. And the spirit is no older and not much wiser.” “You are wise.” “No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.” “Perhaps that is wisdom.” “It is a very unattractive wisdom. "
140 " I want you so much I want to be you too. "