Today marks the 122nd anniversary of the birth of the famous writer Hemingway.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist. His representative works include "The Old Man and the Sea", "The Sun Also Rises", "Farewell, Weapon", "For Whom the Death Knell Tolls", etc. The Old Man and the Sea established his place in world literature and played a decisive role in his victory over the Pulitzer Prize (1953) and the Nobel Prize in Literature (1954).
Known as the spiritual monument of the American nation, Hemingway was known for his simplicity in his writing style, and was the founder of the "journalistic" novel, known as the "literary tough guy".
He had a profound influence on the development of American literature and twentieth-century literature. The "iceberg theory" and minimalist style he pioneered deeply influenced the creative concepts of writers such as Márquez and Salinger.
After World War I, he lived in Paris for a long time as an American correspondent in Europe, and wrote a large number of literary works during this period, showing outstanding talent. During World War II, Hemingway went to Spain, China and other places to report on the war, and actively participated in anti-fascist military operations.
True masters use simple language to express profound truths, and really good works use the experience of life as themes. Today, Little K summarized the 30 most classic sentences in Hemingway's works, each of which can be read with deep meaning!
The Old Man and the Sea
"The Old Man and the Sea", a simple story of only 40,000 words, touches the limits of human willpower and makes us realize how much courage people can have in the face of setbacks.
1) A person can be destroyed, but not defeated.
2, now is not the time to think about what is missing, but to think about what you can do with what you have.
3, every day is a new day. Luck is certainly good, but I'd rather do it. That way, when luck comes, you're ready.
4) But none of these scars are new. They are as old as eroded places in the desert where there are no fish to fight. Everything in his body seemed ancient, except for those eyes, which were as blue as the sea, pleasant and unwilling to admit defeat.
5, I hate cramps, this is the body's betrayal of itself.
6) In a sense, everything is killing each other. Fishing is my life, but it also feeds me.
7, he looked across the sea, and understood how lonely he was at the moment. However, he could already see the refraction in the black deep sea, see the fishing line stretching forward, and see the waves on the calm sea undulating strangely. At this moment, it seemed that the dark clouds of the wind had gathered. He looked forward and saw a flock of wild ducks crossing the water, revealing a clear figure against the background of the sky, then blurred, then clear again. He understood that no one would feel alone at sea.
"The True Nobility"
8, superior to others, not noble, the real noble should be better than the past self.
9) I have always believed that people who begin to live more seriously on the inside will also begin to live more simply on the outside. In an age of extravagance and waste, I hope to show the world that there is very little that humanity really needs.
"Farewell, Weapon"
"Farewell, Weapon" is one of Hemingway's classic works, with a strong autobiographical color, is Hemingway according to his own experience in the war, with war and love as the main line, chanting a mournful and moving song.
10, life always makes us bruised, but later, those wounded places will become our strongest places.
11, people who love each other should not quarrel. Because they are only two people, and it is the whole world that is against them. As soon as they have a diaphragm, the world conquers it.
12, as soon as you have love, you will want to do something for the other person. You want to sacrifice yourself, you want to serve.
The Snow of Kilimanjaro
"The Snow of Kilimanjaro" is one of his famous short stories, which contains a unique human power. His short stories are extraordinary, with unique perspectives, sharp and tense strokes. Hemingway's: precise, restrained, mysterious, and sad, interprets the minimalist style and iceberg theory, which is quite representative.
13 Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain at an altitude of 19,710 feet above sea level, and it is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. The western peak is called the "Oachi-Uayi" of the Maasai people, which is the temple of God. Near the West Peak, there is the carcass of a leopard that has dried and frozen. Leopards come to such a cold place to look for something, and no one has explained.
14, to be a person can only live a day to count a day, only on the day can be counted. As long as it is not dark, it is still today, and tomorrow, it is another today. In this life, he understood the truth, and counted this one as the most important.
15 If you do everything too long and start too late, you don't expect everyone to stay there. People scattered.
16 If he lives by lies, he should try to die with lies.
17 He never quarreled with this woman, but he quarreled with the women he fell in love with, and in the end, because of the corrosive effect of the quarrel, he always ruined the feelings they shared: he loved too much, asked too much, and thus exhausted everything.
18, no matter what you achieve, your life is where your talent lies.
19 He has talent, but because he abandons himself and does not use it, because he betrays himself, he also betrays everything he believes in, because he is overly drunk and dulls his keen senses, because he is lazy, because of laziness, because of snobbery, because of arrogance and prejudice, because of all other reasons, he destroys his talents.
"The Sun Also Rises"
First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's first novel, condensing and bringing together young Hemingway's own thoughts, emotions, intellect, pain and his vision of the future, and is a deep extension of Hemingway's own life experience and philosophical thinking.
20, different youth, the same confusion. However, youth will grow and confusion will dissipate. After the night, the sun rises as usual!
21 It is extremely easy to be unmoved by anything during the day, but at night it is another matter.
22 I don't care what the world is like. I was obsessed with figuring out how to live in it. If you really understand how to live in this world, you may be able to understand what the world is really like.
23 You run from one place to another, but you are still you. You can't escape from your body.
24 I go to great lengths for what I love, so I can be as happy as I am.
A Feast of Flow
A Feast of Flow is a collection of hemingway's highly autobiographical essays. In the 1920s, Hemingway lived in Paris as a correspondent in Europe, and this book is exactly what the author saw and heard at that time, interspersed with anecdotes from many celebrities in the Paris literary and art circles, which is both a sketch of the landscape painted by the author for the great city of Paris and a sketch of his interactions with a large number of novelists and artists in Europe at that time.
25 If you are fortunate enough to live in Paris when you are young, she will be with you wherever you go for the rest of your life, because Paris is a feast of flow.
26 Never travel with someone you don't love. Don't play any tricks to meet any kind of clichés.
27 At that time, I understood that whether it is a good thing or a bad thing, once it is over, it will always make people feel empty. If it's a bad thing, the emptiness will disappear on its own, and if it's a good thing, you won't be able to fill the emptiness unless something better happens.
28 In those days, however, spring always came at the end, but to the astonishment of all, it almost did not come.
29 I have learned never to empty the well of my writing, but to stop when there is still some water left in the depths of the well, and to let the fountain that supplies the well refill it at night.
30 But Paris is a very old city, and we are very young, and nothing is simple here, not even poverty, unexpected money, moonlight, right and wrong, and the breath of those who sleep beside you in the moonlight.