“How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die”
― Testament of Youth
― Testament of Youth
“When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.”
― Testament of Youth
― Testament of Youth
“You know you wouldn't be happy unless you married an odd sort of person”
― Testament of Youth
― Testament of Youth
“There is a strange lack of dignity in conquest; the dull, uncomplaining endurance of defeat appears more worthy of congratulation.”
― Testament of Youth
― Testament of Youth
“Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth--that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent and every setback insuperable?”
― Testament of Youth
― Testament of Youth
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