“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.”
“Eternity is the sun
mixed
with the sea”
“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”
Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”
“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”
As quoted in "Guy De Maupassant : A Study" by Pol Neveux, in Original Short Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3090
“A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.”
"A Wife's Confession"
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!”
From a set of "rules for life" sent to publisher Charles Scribner IV; quoted in Scribner's memoir In the Company of Writers (New York: Scribner, 1991), p. 64 https://books.google.com/books?id=yYdHGtlgIsYC&pg=PA64&dq=hemingway+%22rules+for+life%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-zvyfgNDMAhUJ_mMKHU6zDrYQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=%20%22rules%20for%20life%22&f=false
“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.”
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation
Context: Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
Any thought that abandons unity glorifies diversity! And diversity is the home of art. The only thought to liberate the mind is that which leaves it alone, certain of its limits and of its impending end. No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life. <!-- 116
