Julian

“Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died.

Then I know nothing more.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“And to Pierre all people seemed to be such soldiers, saving themselves from life: some with ambition, some with cards, some with drafting laws, some with women, some with playthings, some with horses, some with politics, some with hunting, some with wine, some with affairs of state.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Don't keep coughing so, Kitty, for Heaven's sake! Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces."
"Kitty has no discretion in her coughs," said her father;" she times them ill."
"I do not cough for my own amusement," replied Kitty fretfully.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Every act alters the soul of the doer.”
― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West