Book: For whom the bell tolls. Page 1

All five of his friends have been killed, he alone survived; he was like himself, and he was taken to headquarters to serve at the table. <...> And all the while he was crying. The whole lunch or dinner he was crying, silently, but uncontrollably.

How many times had he heard this. How many times have you seen people with an effort to utter these words. How many times had he seen their eyes fill with tears and her voice becomes raspy when you want to say a simple word - father, brother, mother, sister.

I'm talking about those two fools who meet in Russia. - Karkov grinned and began: - the First is a winter fool. The winter fool comes to the door of your house and knocking loudly. You go knock and see him for the first time. The spectacle of it is impressive. This huge fellow in high boots, fur coat and fur hat, and all of it covered with snow. He first stomps, and snow falls from his boots. Then he takes off his fur coat and shakes it, and with coats too, falls the snow. Then he takes off his hat and slaps it against the door jamb. And with caps, too, falls the snow. Then he still stomps his feet and enters the room. Only then are you able to see it, and you see that he is a fool. It is the winter fool. A summer fool walking down the street, waving his arms, wags his head, and just over two hundred paces immediately sees that he is a fool. This is the summer fool.

- And there is no God?
- No, friend. Of course not. If he was, he didn't allow what I saw with my own eyes?

In a beautiful body has some magic power. But not always. One has it and another does not.

I wonder if you can learn to infinity, or the person is able to assimilate only what it is supposed to?

It never occurred to me that the situation can be hopeless, because even when it happened, he was able to find a way out.

To understand is to forgive. No, this is wrong. Forgiveness always was exaggerated. Forgiveness is a Christian idea and Spain has never been a Christian country.

When a man rises from sleep early in the morning, he is feeling a gnawing emptiness inside, like a sense of impending disaster, and now the feeling came upon him with tenfold force.

But should a man carry out impossible orders knowing where it will lead? Yes. You need to carry, because carrying out the order, you can verify that it impossible.

... learn to live your whole life for the two nights that you released; to accommodate all that we would have to have always, in the short term, when you can have it.

What we men are beasts when angry.

He hated the injustice of not less than cruelty, and rage blinded his eyes, but finally the anger began to subside, red, black, blinding, murderous rage disappeared completely, and thought he had the emptiness, calmness, clarity, cold clarity, what happens after intimacy with a woman I don't love.

We are very serious so can make very strong jokes.