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Quotation from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

“He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget.”

Ernest Hemingway (spoken by Frederic Henry)

A Farewell to Arms, Book I, Chapter III (Project Gutenberg #75201 (Scribner's, 1929))

Portrait of Ernest Hemingway

Returning from leave, Frederic regrets not visiting the priest's cold, clear Abruzzi and admits what the young chaplain understood.

Citation: "He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget." — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Book I, Chapter III (Project Gutenberg #75201 (Scribner's, 1929)). (id a-farewell-to-arms-q2)

Portrait: ErnestHemingway, Lloyd Arnold, Public domain.

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