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I was not made to think. I was made to eat. My God, yes. Eat and drink and sleep with Catherine. Tonight maybe.

The head was mine, but not to use, not to think with; only to remember and not too much remember.

I could remember Catherine but I knew I would get crazy if I thought about her when I was not sure yet I would see her, so I would not think about her, only about her a little

"You can't tell anything by a man's being married. But I should think a married man would want to get back to his wife,"
I said. I would be glad to talk about wives.

"Where's Bonello?" I asked.
Piani looked at me."He went away,Tenente" he said."He wanted to
be a prisoner."
I did not say anything.
"He was afraid we would get killed."
I held the bottle of wine and did not say anything.
"You see we don't believe in the war anyway,Tenente."

A retreat was no place for two virgins. Real virgins. Probably very religious. If there were no war we would probably all be in bed.

"I knew I did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes. Nobody had mentioned what the stakes were. It was all right with me."

"I'm not [brave]," I said, "I know where I stand. I've been out long enough to know. I'm like a ball-player that bats two hundred and thirty and knows he's no better."

I wondered if America really got into the war, if they would close down the major leagues. They probably wouldn't. There was still racing in Milan and the war could not be much worse.

You'll be lovely that way and I'll be so proud of you. I'm very proud of you anyway. You have such a lovely temperature and you sleep like a little boy with your arm around the pillow and think it's me. Or is it some other girl? Some fine Italian girl?

She went out. God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows l had.

Holiness means keeping distinct the categories of creation. It therefore involves correct definition, discrimination and order. Under this head all the rules of sexual morality exemplify the holy. Incest and adultery are
against holiness, in the simple sense of right order.

Second, the existence of anomaly can be physically controlled. Thus in
some West African tribes the rule that twins should be killed at birth
eliminates a social anomaly, if it is held that two humans could not be born
from the same womb at the same time.
Or take the night-crowing cocks. If their necks are promptly wrung, they do not live to contradict the definition of a cock as a bird that crows at dawn.

کتاب خیلی به هم ریخته‌ست و مطالب تکراری داره. تو گویی از جمع‌آوری مدخلهای ویکیپدیا درست شده باشه

به نظر [جان استوارت] میل مردم مثل بیمارانی هستند که احساس ناخوشی میکنند ولی خود درمان درد خویش را نمیدانند و البته مردم میتوانند درمان پیشنهادی سیاستمداران را بپذیرند یا رد کنند.

و رسول علیه‌السلام گفته‌است اطلبو حاجاتکم من حسان‌الوجوه، که حاجت خویش از نیکورویان بخواهید

به نظرم ترجمه خوبی نداره و نویسنده تا حدی بیش از اندازه درگیر گفتن جملات تاثیرگذار شده ولی از لحن روایت سرد و خشکش خوشم اومده.
گاهی هم حین روایت غافلگیریهای جالبی در انتظار خواننده‌ست

نیکی و بدی و شادی و غمی که می‌بینی با چرخ که طاسی‌ست نگون افتاده حوالت مکن که چرخ از تو هزار بار بیچاره‌تر است.

2) A good story from Hemingway but for sure not a masterpiece.
3) Nice and touching but the introductory parts are much more than the main part of the story line.

"Once a man married he's absolutely bitched", Bill went on. "He hasn't got anything more. Nothing. Not a damn thing. He's done for. You've seen the guys that get married"

I try to go for this book story by story
1) Fairly good but honestly I did not get the end