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Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.

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The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

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We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

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You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.

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It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

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Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay
And the war would be over and done in a day.

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No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.

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Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

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To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

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Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

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A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends.

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The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

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With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

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I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.

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I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.

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Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.

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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

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We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers—we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.

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Keep things at arm's length.... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

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Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

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That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

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Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying — a little shove toward the end.

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Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.

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We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are hard to come by.

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We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.

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For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress — to the future.

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Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;—when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields of craters within and without.

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Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? That is long ago. We are old folk.

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To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its center, I feel the whirl of the vortex sucking me slowly, irresistibly, inescapably into itself.

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They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.

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