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“Terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks; but it kills if a man thinks about it.”

“No longer do we lie helpless, waiting on the scaffold, we can destroy and kill, to save ourselves and to be revenged.”

“No soldier outlived a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trust his luck.”

“The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.”

“We are not, indeed, in the front-line, but only in the reserves, yet in every face can be read: This is the front, now we are within its embrace.”

“Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk.”

“We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.”