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'The Sun Also Rises' Quotes

Ernest Hemingway's Famous Lost Generation Novel

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  • "I thought I had paid for everything. Not like the woman pays and pays and pays. No idea of retribution or punishment. Just exchange of values. You gave something up and got something else. Or you worked for something. You paid some way for everything that was any good."
    - Chapter 14, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

  • "Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it."
    - Chapter 14, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

  • "That was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that must be immorality."
    - Chapter 14, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

  • "The things that happened could only have happened during a fiesta. Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta."
    - Chapter 15, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

  • "Tell him that bulls have no balls."
    - Chapter 16, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

  • "I hate his damned suffering."
    - Chapter 16, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

  • "Oh, darling, please stay by me. Please stay by me and see me through this."
    - Chapter 16, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

  • "I don't say it's right. It is right though for me, God knows, I've never felt such a bitch.'"
    - Chapter 16, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

  • "It was not pleasant."
    - Chapter 16, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

  • "In bull-fighting they speak of the terrain of the bull and the terrain of the bull-fighter. As long as a bull-fighter stays in his own terrain he is comparatively safe. Each time he enters into the terrain of the bull he is in great danger. Belmonte, in his best days, worked always in the terrain of the bull. This way he gave the sensation of coming tragedy."
    - Chapter 18, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

  • "Because he did not look up to ask if it pleased he did it all for himself inside, and it strengthened him, and yet he did it for her, too. But he did not do it for her at any loss to himself."
    - Chapter 18, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

  • "That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right."
    - Chapter 19, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

  • "[T]he end of the line. All trains finish there. They don't go on anywhere."
    - Chapter 19, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

  • "You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch."
    - Chapter 19,The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

  • "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
    - Chapter 19, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

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