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Quotation from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

“It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.”

Ernest Hemingway (spoken by Frederic Henry)

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

Portrait of Ernest Hemingway

The last lines of the novel, after Catherine's death in the Lausanne hospital.

Citation: "It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain." — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Book V, Chapter XLI (Project Gutenberg #75201 (Scribner's, 1929)). (id a-farewell-to-arms-q7)

Portrait: ErnestHemingway, Lloyd Arnold, Public domain.

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