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Quotation from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

“Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.”

Ernest Hemingway (spoken by Frederic Henry)

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

Portrait of Ernest Hemingway

Lying among the guns on a flatcar after escaping the battle police in the Tagliamento, Frederic decides the war is no longer his.

Citation: "Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation." — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Book III, Chapter XXXII (Project Gutenberg #75201 (Scribner's, 1929)). (id a-farewell-to-arms-q5)

Portrait: ErnestHemingway, Lloyd Arnold, Public domain.

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