Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are all marked by it and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
Life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.
Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.
Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man.
It’s his sense of self-preservation. The great Italian sense. The greatest Italian sense.
It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
Isn’t it pretty to think so?
In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more.
