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"When I hear the word 'peace-time,' it goes to my head: and if it really came, I think I would do some unimaginable thing-something, you know, that it's worth having lain here in the muck for. But I can't even imagine anything. All I do know is that this business about professions and studies and salaries and so on—it makes me sick, it is and always was disgusting. I don't see anything at all.”

Quotes:

“You still think I am a child—why can I not put my head in your lap and weep? Why have I always to be strong and self-con-trolled? I would like to weep and be comforted too, indeed I am little more than a child; in the wardrobe still hang short, boy's trousers —it is such a little time ago, why is it over?”

“Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try. It piles up ahead of them. Man owes something to man. If he ignores the debt it poisons him, and if he tries to make payments the debt only in-creases, and the quality of his gift is the measure of the man.”

“‘It's fun to be a sucker—if you can afford it.’ Doc could afford it. He had not the vanity which makes men try to be smart.”