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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.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!”
― The Night in Lisbon
― The Night in Lisbon
“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
― Journey to the End of the Night
“It was almost funny, how even lying here terrified and half-expecting to be dead at any moment, his bureaucratic fear of reprimand, of public embarrassment was stronger than his physical fear of dying.”
― The thin red line
― The thin red line
“We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.”
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Around the World in 80 Books
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