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“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“We swarmed through Africa and America because we were better than they, of course we were, we were making war humane, and now it has broken down and they are dragged into hell with us. We have doomed the world with our advancements, with our democracy that is so much better than whatever they’ve thought of, with our technology that will so improve their lives, and now Algerian men must choke to death on their own melted insides in wet Belgian trenches and I—”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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“In his mind, he saw empires rise and fall like the swelling and abating of the tide, perpetual, each society blindly throwing it's tragedies and flaws onto foreign shores.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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“It’s said it takes seven years to grow completely new skin cells.To think, this year I will grow into a body you never will have touched.”
― Brett E. Jenkins

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“On his worst days, Ellwood hated England...They were a small-minded people, the English, and their greatest art form, writing, was small-minded also, it was provincial; it did not translate like music and painting, it was only for the English-speakers. That [his friends] should all have to die so that England could continue in its smug small-mindedness seemed worse than a tragedy, for it was not beautiful. No, it was only stupid, and Ellwood hated the muddy fields and the dreary sheep and the clumsy, prehistoric rock formations that they had all been asked to die for.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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