That is probably quite a deadly wheel. I'm glad we are off
of it. It was making me dizzy there a couple of times. But it
is the thing that drunkards and those who are really mean or
cruel ride until they die.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Jordan on cycle of abuse by which abuser
hurts people around them and afterwards becomes friendly and
overly good hearted, Chapter 18. |
It is the shift from deadliness to normal family life that
is the strangest.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Robert Jordan, Chapter 18. |
You learned the dry-mouthed, fear-purged purging ecstasy of
battle and you fought that summer and that fall for all the
poor in the world against all tyranny, for all the things you
believed in and for the new world you had been educated into.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Chapter 18. |
In the night he awoke and held her tight as though she were
all of life and it was being taken away from him.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Chapter 21. |
In politics ... the first thing is to continue to exist.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Agustín to Jordan, Chapter 23. |
In war cannot say what one feels.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Pilar, Chapter 25. |
It is right, he told himself, not reassuringly, but proudly.
I believe in the people and their right to govern themselves
as they wish. But you mustn't believe in killing, he told himself.
You must do it as a necessity but you must not believe in it.
If you believe in it the whole thing is wrong.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Chapter 26. |
[El Sordo] was not at all afraid of dying but he was angry
at being on this hill which was only utilizable as a place to
die... Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it or fear
of it in his mind.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Chapter 27. |
Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of
water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out
and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs
and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream
with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills
beyond.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Wounded rebel leader El Sordo trapped on
hillside from which there is no escape, Chapter 27. |
There is no language so filthy as Spanish. There are words
for all the vile words in English and there are other words
and expressions that are used only in countries where blasphemy
keeps pace with the austerity of religion.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Chapter 27. |
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could
have.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Robert Jordan speaking of his father, Chapter
30. |
I guess really good soldiers are really good at very little
else.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Chapter 30. |
There is no finer and no worse people in the world. No kinder
people and no crueler.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Chapter 31. |
It was easier to live under a regime than fight it.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Chapter 34. |
His rage began to thin as he exaggerated more and more and
spread his scorn and contempt so widely and unjustly that he
could no longer believe in it himself.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Chapter 35. |
That isn't much of a wedding present. But is not a good night's
sleep supposed to be priceless? You had a good night's sleep.
See if you can wear that like a ring on your finger.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Chapter 35. |
How little we know of what there is to know.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Jordan. |
There isn't any need to deny everything there's been just
because you are going to lose it.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Chapter 38. |
I suppose if a man has something once, always something of
it remains.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Pilar. |
This was the greatest gift that he had, the talent that fitted
him for war; that ability not to ignore but to despise whatever
bad ending there could be. This quality was destroyed by too
much responsibility for others or the necessity of undertaking
something ill planned or badly conceived.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Chapter 39. |
His gray face had a look of decay. His face looked as though
it were modelled from the waste material you find under the
claws of a very old lion.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Chapter 42. |
Once tonight we have been impeded by the ignorance of the
anarchists. Then by the sloth of a bureaucratic fascist, then
by the oversuspicion of a Communist.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Gomez. |
In his mind he was commanding troops; he had the right to
interfere and this he believed to constitute command.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Chapter 42. |
The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate
very much to leave it.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Robert Jordan, Chapter 43. |
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But
what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend
on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's
been that way so many times. All of war is that way.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Chapter 43. |
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