Quotes from < The Snows of Kilimanjaro >

This post is my personal favorite quotes from Ernest Hemingway’s autobiographical novel < THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO > .

Cock on a Dunghill

“Love is a dunghill^[1],” said Harry. “And I’m the cock that gets on it to crow.”

Fat on the Soul

They had made this safari with the minimum of comfort. There was no hardship; but there was no luxury and he had thought that he could get back into training that way. That in some way he could work the fat off his soul the way a fighter went into the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body.

Lying: A Life Style

If he lived by a lie he should try to die by it.

Talent and Money: A Equality

We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies. He had sold vitality, in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money.

The old and the New

The steps by which she had acquired him and the way in which she had finally fallen in love with him were all part of a regular progression in which she had built herself a new life and he had traded away what remained of his old life.

Let’s Destroy

“ You wouldn’t want to destroy me again, would you? “

“ I’d like to destroy you a few times in bed. “ he said.

“ Yes. That’s the good destruction. That’s the way we’re made to be destroyed. “

The Same Affliction

He knew his neighbors in that quarter then because they all were poor.

The drunkards^[2] killed their poverty that way; the sportifs^[3] took it out in exercise.

A Dying Man

All right. Now he would not care for death. One thing he had always dreaded^[4] was the pain. He could stand pain as well as any man, until it went on too long, and wore him out, but here he had something that had hurt frightfully and just when he had felt it breaking him, the pain had stopped.

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