For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

“I am an old man who will live until I die,”

“No. Man. Certainly not. If there were God, never would He have permitted what I have seen with my eyes. Let them have God.” “They claim Him.” “Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.” “Then it is thyself who will forgive thee for killing.”

“Every one needs to talk to some one,” the woman said. “Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone.”

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.