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“i am very quiet. let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. i am so alone, and so without hope that i can confront them without fear. the life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. whether i have subdued it, i know not. but so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless if the will that us within me.”

“yesterday is like a fog to me, there is no hope of ever getting out of this.”

“the sun goes down, night comes, the shells whine, life is at an end.”

“‘the war has ruined us for everything.’”

“in himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum.”