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“I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of the irretrievable past.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room