Diary 6

-"Oh, yes. That is true. Already I am only happy when I am working." He looked at the floor again.

-"You'll get over that."

-"No. I only like two other things; one is bad for my work and the other is over in half an hour or fifteen minutes. Sometimes less."

-"Sometimes a good deal less."

-"Perhaps I have improved, baby. You do not know. But there are only the two things and my work."

-"You'll get other things."

-"No. We never get anything. We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete. You should be glad not to be a Latin."

 

Ernest Hemingway, a Farewell to Arms