For Whom The Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

Robert Jordan said nothing. “Listen to me,” the deaf man said. “I am speaking much. But it is so we may understand one another. We exist here by a miracle. By a mixacle of laziness and stupidity of the fascists which they will remedy in time.

It is one thing to think you must do and it is another thing to worry. Don’t worry. You mustn’t worry. You know the things that you may have to do and you know what may happen. Certainly it may happen.

There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days.