For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

“We will take the message,” Robert Jordan said and he thought how the word aburrimiento which means boredom in Spanish was a word no peasant would use in any other language. Yet it is one of the most common words in the mouth of a Spaniard of any class.

“It is beneath a man’s dignity to listen and give importance to rumors.”

“I suffer for others.” “As all good men should.” “But for myself very little.”