Quotes from book

For Whom the Bell Tolls

“There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”

“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”

“The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.”

“He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have.”

“But did thee feel the earth move?”

“I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.”

“I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.”

“There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.”

“No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.”

“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.”

“I had an inheritance from my father,
It was the moon and the sun.
And though I roam all over the world,
The spending of it’s never done.”

“But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope),…”

“I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.”

“If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”

“If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”

“Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.”

“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”

“This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it”

“I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.”