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“State and home country, there’s a difference”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“…The silence spreads. I talk and must talk. So I speak to him and say to him: "Comrade, I did not want to kill you. If you jumped in here again, I would not do it, if you would be sensible too. But you are only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth it appropriate response. It was that abstraction I stabbed. But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are just poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying, and the same agony — Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy? If we threw away these rifles and this uniform you could be my brother just like Kat and Albert. Take twenty years of my life, comrade, and stand up — take more, for I do not know what I can even attempt to do with it now.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“We have so much to say, and we shall never say it.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“یکجور و یکنواخت کامیون ها تکان می خورند. یکجور و یکنواخت آن دو نفر داد می زنند و یکجور و یکنواخت باران می بارد. روی سر ما می بارد. روی سر مرده هایی که در میدان جنگ افتاده اند و روی بدن جوان موطلایی و زخم روبازش که برای بدن بچگانه او خیلی مهیب و کشنده است. روی قبر کمریش می بارد. و روی قلب ما.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“Comrade, I say to the dead man, but I say it calmly, today you tomorrow me, but if I come out of it, comrade, I will fight against this, that has struck us both down; from you taken life-and from me-? Life also. I promise you, comrade. It shall never happen again”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
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