Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

porque yo guardaba la boca callada cuando algo no me gustaba. Si a una persona le gustaban las pinturas o los escritos de sus amigos, yo lo miraba como algo parecido a lo de la gente que quiere a su familia, y es descortés criticársela. A veces, uno puede pasar mucho tiempo antes de tomar una actitud crítica ante su propia familia, la de sangre o la política.

virada para cima. A ponta farpeada do arpão projetava-se em ângulo no dorso do peixe e o mar estava colorido com o sangue vermelho do seu coração. Primeiro a água se tornara muito escura naquele mar tão azul com mais de uma milha

no me gusta esa resignación. Es un sentimiento malo que se adueña de los hombres cuando están a punto de alejarse o de traicionar; es el sentimiento que precede a la liquidación.

I wanted it so much,' she said. 'I don't know why I wanted it so much. I wanted that poor kitty. It isn't any fun to be a poor kitty out in the rain.

Quando começou o Inverno, a chuva tornou-se permanente, e com a chuva veio a cólera. Mas foi dominada, e só matou sete mil homens do exército.

It is not bad," Santiago said. "And pain does not matter to a man.

Ma, pensò, io le tengo al posto giusto. Soltanto non ho più fortuna. Ma chissà? Forse oggi. Ogni giorno è un nuovo giorno. È meglio quando si ha fortuna. Ma io preferisco essere a posto. Così quando viene sono pronto.

Sus ojos podían continuar mirando y mirando cuando todos los demás ojos hubiesen dejado de mirar.

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Non lo disse ad alta voce perché sapeva che a dirle, le cose belle non succedono.

But you haven't got the boy, he thought. You have only yourself...

Don't think about that either. If you don't think about it, it doesn't exist. The hell it doesn't. But that's the system I'm going on, he thought.

Mansfield was like near-beer. It was better to drink water.

I've never read anything, though, that could make you feel about the country the way we feel about it. . . I'd like to try to write something about the country and the animals and what it's like to some one who knows nothing about it.

Le mille volte che già lo aveva dimostrato non avevano importanza. Ora lo stava dimostrando di nuovo. Ogni volta era una volta nuova, e non pensava mai al passato, quando lo faceva.

Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you.

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 and for the new world you had been educated into.

Å"The sadness will dissipate as the sun rises. It is like a mist.â€

Non devo fargli aumentare il dolore, pensò. Il mio non importa. Posso controllarlo. Ma il suo dolore può farlo diventare matto.

Who's she?" Georgette turned to me. "Do I have to talk to her?

Everything you do to someone you love out of pleasure is the most honorable.

Preoccuparsi è dannoso come aver paura; serve solo a far le cose più difficili.

You were fighting against exactly what you were doing and being forced into doing to have any chance of winning