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161 " I had always expected to become devout. All my family died very devout. But somehow it does not come.” “It’s too early.” “Maybe it is too late. Perhaps I have outlived my religious feeling.” “My own comes only at night.” “Then too you are in love. Do not forget that is a religious feeling. "
― Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms
162 " I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking. "
163 " The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one? "
164 " I went out the door and suddenly I felt lonely and empty. I had treated seeing Catherine very lightly, I had gotten somewhat drunk and had nearly forgotten to come but when I could not see her there I was feeling lonely and hollow. "
165 " Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. "
166 " He went out and I heard him laughing in the hall. I heard some "
167 " I ate the end of my piece of cheese and took a swallow of wine. Through the other noise I heard a cough, then came the chuh-chuh-chuh-chuh--then there was a flash, as when a blast-furnace door is swung open, and a roar that started white and went read and on and on in a rushing wind. I tired to breathe but my breath would not come and I felt myself rush bodily out of myself and out and out and out and all the time bodily in the wind. I went out swiftly, all of myself, and I knew I was dead and that it had all been a mistake to think you just died. Then I floated, and instead of going on I felt myself slide back. I breathed and I was back. "
168 " I don’t want any one else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you. "
169 " That is what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. "
170 " perhaps it is clear why a writer should be interested in the constant, bullying, murderous, slovenly crime of war. "
171 " It was warm and like the spring and I walked down the alleyway of trees, warmed from the sun on the wall, and found we still lived in the same house and that it all looked the same as when I had left it. "
172 " Sometimes all niceness gone and glad to get out on the street but always another day starting and then another night. "
173 " -You never look old.-The body is that which grows old. The spirit is neither older, nor much wiser. "
174 " I had hoped for something.""Defeat?""No. Something more.""There isn't anything more. Except victory. It may be worse. "
175 " Together they made the bed with me in it. That was new to me and an admirable proceeding. "
176 " If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. 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 bit there will be no special hurry. "
177 " That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is. "
178 " No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. "
179 " ...it's a big misconception: the wisdom of the old people. They don't become wiser. Just more cautious. "
180 " Lumea ne înfrânge pe toți și după aceea, în cazul multora, locul în care au fost înfrânți se întărește. Însă pe cei pe care nu-i poate înfrânge îi omoară. Îi omoară pe cei foarte buni, pe cei foarte blânzi și pe cei foarte curajoși, fără să stea să aleagă. Dacă nu ești printre aceștia, poți fi sigur că o să te omoare și pe tine, dar că nu-i nici o grabă. "