“All thinking men are atheists.”
Work
A Farewell to Arms is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of A Farewell to Arms cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I."
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Hemingway Ernest
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“All thinking men are atheists.”
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
“I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things.”
“There isnt always an explanation for everything.”
“But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked...”
“God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sort...”
“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
“Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.”