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“Peace has not yet been secured, and already there is talk of the ‘after-peace.’ That’s normal. They won’t be here for it, or for the peace, either. There are so many of them, so very many, and you can’t bring back the dead: there is no resurrection, just that single one in all of world history, and it’s still an endless source of astonishment.” - The war