“I was ever a fighter, so---one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore, and bade me creep past.”
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“in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight”
― The Guns of August
― The Guns of August
“Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.”
― The Guns of August
― The Guns of August
“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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