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“The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.”
― Darkness at Noon
― Darkness at Noon
“Who knows what will come when quick-tongued men make ancient grievances rhyme with fresh desire for land and conquest?”
― The Buried Giant
― The Buried Giant
“Foolishness, sir. How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter and a magician’s trickery?”
― The Buried Giant
― The Buried Giant
“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.”
― I Am Legend
― I Am Legend
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