“He’d probably say that he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“We have lost all feeling for one another. We can hardly control ourselves when our glance lights on the form of some other man. We are insensible, dead men, who through some trick, some dreadful magic, are still able to run and to kill.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first death we saw shattered this belief. We had to recognise that our generation was more to be trusted than theirs. They surpassed us only in phrases and in cleverness. The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“And even if these scenes of our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that passed from them into us could not rise again. We might be amongst them and move in them; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them. But it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
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