Guy Sajer Quotes

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A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.

Guy Sajer

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

Guy Sajer

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.

Guy Sajer

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

Guy Sajer

Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

Guy Sajer

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

Guy Sajer

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

Guy Sajer

Guy Sajer

Guy Sajer

Born: January 13, 1927

Died: January 11, 2022 (aged 94)

Bio: Guy Sajer was a French writer, author of Le soldat oublié, and a cartoonist under the pen names Dimitri, and Dimitri Lahache. He was the son of a French father and a German mother: Sajer is his mother's maiden name.

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