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"But the silence of those who said nothing, nothing at all, was terrible. It was the silence of those who knew they were all done for."

"Once we start a war, that war is won."

This book is decades old but you can still hear men in power making statements like this today

"What a laborious, frightful business it was, this killing time, over and over again that little second hand racing invisibly beyond the horizon, over and over again you threw a heavy dark sack over it, in the certain knowledge that the little hand went racing on, relentlessly on and on..."

"This Soon compresses the future, shrinks it, offers no certainty, no certainty whatever, it stands for absolute uncertainty. Soon is nothing and Soon is a lot."

"Life, apparently, will take what it needs to keep going."

This made me a little emotional

"We cannot imagine the date of our demise. Our minds baulk. On the one hand it's too grim. And on the other we tempt fate if we count on a certain period as rightfully ours. When the outrageous end can come out of a clear blue sky like a fridge, a bomb, a car crash. Or a rare cancer."

I'm only reading the introduction and my feelings already got hurt