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Robert Jordan quotes

A character in For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

5 quotes spoken by or about Robert Jordan, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

Cover of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

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I have fought for what I believed in for a year now. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Robert Jordan (thought) · Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? 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.
Robert Jordan (thought) · Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
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.
Robert Jordan (thought) · Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
Robert Jordan (dialogue) · Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees.
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), the opening sentence

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