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The Sun Also Rises quotes about disillusionment

31 quotes on disillusionment from The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book. Drawn from the 86 in the full collection. Page 2 of 2.

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I can’t help it. I’ve never been able to help anything.
Brett Ashley (dialogue) · Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926), Book Two, Chapter 16
“Some people have God,” I said. “Quite a lot.”
Jake Barnes (dialogue) · Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926), Book Three, Chapter 19
Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason.
Jake (narration) · Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926), Book Three, Chapter 19
You haven’t any values. You’re dead, that’s all.
Brett Ashley (dialogue) · Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926), Book One, Chapter 7
A big horn wound. All for fun. Just for fun. What do you think of that?
Café Suizo waiter (dialogue) · Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926), Book Two, Chapter 17
Pernod is greenish imitation absinthe. When you add water it turns milky. It tastes like licorice and it has a good uplift, but it drops you just as far.
Jake (narration) · Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926), Book One, Chapter 3

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