“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
― Hocus Pocus
― Hocus Pocus
“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.”
― Julius Caesar
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.”
― Julius Caesar
“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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