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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

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But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no s...more

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Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as here it was the same solemn pause, the ...more

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It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courag...more

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Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the ...more

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Peace is the only battle worth waging.

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You must realize that men make war as much with the enthusiasm of those who want it as with the despair of those who reject it with all their soul.

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And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a remembered hill, the smile of a beloved f...more

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For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things you cannot choke in ...more

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In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our truth.

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And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. We were forced to despair. We were cut off from th...more

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We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, between strength and cruelty, for that even finer di...more

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You were satisfied to serve the power of your nation and we dreamed of giving ours her truth. It was enough for you to serve the politics of reality w...more

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I belong to a nation which for the past four years has begun to relive the course of her entire history and which is calmly and surely preparing out o...more

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…Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave the world a h...more