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“England looked strange to us returned soldiers. We could not understand the war-madness that ran wild everywhere, looking for a pseudo-military outlet. The civilians talked a foreign language. I found serious conversation with my parents all but impossible.”
― Goodbye to All That
― Goodbye to All That
“An innocent youth wrote recently that he is convinced I am the greatest writer in the world (from New Zealand). A touching letter – so simple & unaffected. Another young man wrote, only yesterday, that I am to him what Hardy must have been to me. Such tributes are worth having, aren't they, even if I don't deserve them.”
― Siegfried Sassoon: Poet's Pilgrimage
― Siegfried Sassoon: Poet's Pilgrimage
“One evening I asked whether he [Rivers] thought I was suffering from shell-shock.
‘Certainly not,’ he replied.
'What have I got then?’
'Well, you appear to be suffering from an anti-war complex.”
― Sherston's Progress
‘Certainly not,’ he replied.
'What have I got then?’
'Well, you appear to be suffering from an anti-war complex.”
― Sherston's Progress
“England is seen at its worst when it has to deal with men like Wilde. In Germany Wilde and Byron are appreciated as authors: in England they still go pecking about their love-affairs. Anyone who calls a book ‘immoral’ or 'moral’ should be caned. A book by itself can be neither. It is only a question of the morality or immorality of the reader. But the English approach all questions of vice with such a curious mixture of curiosity and fear that it’s impossible to deal with them.”
― The Letters of Charles Sorley, with a Chapter of Biography
― The Letters of Charles Sorley, with a Chapter of Biography
“I carry my liberty with me. It is in my thoughts, in my head. Shakespeare is one of my countries, Goethe another. You can change that badge that I wear, but you can’t change the way I think. It is through my intellect that I can escape the roles, intrusions, and obligations with which every civilisation, every community would burden me. I make myself my own homeland through my affinities, my choices, my ideas, and no one can take it away from me – I may even be able to enlarge it. I don’t spend my life in the company of crowds but individuals. If I could pick fifty individuals from each nation, then perhaps I could put together a society I’d be happy with. My first possession is myself; better to sent it into exile than to lose it, to change a few habits rather than terminate my role as a human being. We only have one homeland: the world.”
― Fear
― Fear
Great War (1914-1918): The Society and Culture of the First World War
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