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“But where has there ever been a successful “war for peace”? It’s a theorist’s concept, possible only if one is very distantly removed from the actual business of killing and dying and the aftereffects that produces”
― Robert K. Brigham, Reckless: Henry Kissinger and The Tragedy of Vietnam

“I see the war as like him, spreading everywhere, breaking in everywhere, stealing, imprisoning, always there, merged and mingled with everything, present in the body, in the mind, awake and asleep, all the time, a prey to the intoxicating passion of occupying that delightful territory, a child’s body, the bodies of those less strong, of conquered peoples. Because evil is there, at the gates, against the skin.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“but they were also irreplaceable. And the things that were irreplaceable in life were the only things of value.”
― Penelope Douglas , Corrupt

“And they both sat there, grown up, yet children at heart; and it was summer, - warm, beautiful summer.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen