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A Farewell to Arms quotes about disillusionment

31 quotes on disillusionment from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book. Drawn from the 68 in the full collection. Page 2 of 2.

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Perhaps wars weren’t won any more. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years’ War.

— Frederic (narration) · Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book Two, Chapter 19

We never get anything. We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete.

— Rinaldi (dialogue) · Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book Three, Chapter 25

It is in defeat that we become Christian.

— Frederic Henry (dialogue) · Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book Three, Chapter 26

It’s not deserting from the army. It’s only the Italian army.

— Catherine Barkley (dialogue) · Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book Four, Chapter 34

The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was bad but not dull.

— Frederic (narration) · Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book One, Chapter 7

I saw how their minds worked; if they had minds and if they worked. They were all young men and they were saving their country.

— Frederic (narration) · Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book Three, Chapter 30

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