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For among mortal powers, only imagination can bring back the dead.
“The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we are still alive.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“We broke our mother's heart and became ourselves.
We proceeded to breathe and therefore to leave,
drunken, astonished, each of us a god.”
― Auguries of Innocence
We proceeded to breathe and therefore to leave,
drunken, astonished, each of us a god.”
― Auguries of Innocence
“No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.”
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“The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.”
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“We are two men, two minute sparks of life; outside is the night and the circle of death. We sit
on the edge of it crouching in danger, the grease drips from our hands, in our hearts we are close
to one another, and the hour is like the room: flecked over with the lights and shadows of our
feelings cast by a quiet fire. What does he know of me or I of him? formerly we should not have
had a single thought in common--now we sit with a goose between us and feel in unison, are so
intimate that we do not even speak.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
on the edge of it crouching in danger, the grease drips from our hands, in our hearts we are close
to one another, and the hour is like the room: flecked over with the lights and shadows of our
feelings cast by a quiet fire. What does he know of me or I of him? formerly we should not have
had a single thought in common--now we sit with a goose between us and feel in unison, are so
intimate that we do not even speak.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
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