Hemingway, Ernest -- A Farewell to Arms, ch. 27 (1929)

Dave — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:12:06 +0000

I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice, and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the sacrifices were like the stockyards in Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American writer
A Farewell to Arms, ch. 27 (1929)
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The book is set in the Italian campaigns of World War I.

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Hemingway, Ernest -- A Farewell to Arms, ch. 27 (1929)