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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying....more

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We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.

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Why must man not marry?" "He cannot marry. He cannot marry," he said angrily. "If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position ...more

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World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the write...more

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the v...more

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He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last countr...more

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I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes...more

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That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off b...more

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I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done w...more

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It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.' She was crying. I comfor...more

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In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone.

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That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face gr...more

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Are you a communist?""No I am an anti-fascist""For a long time?""Since I have understood fascism.

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I love thee as I love all that we have fought for. I love thee as I love liberty and dignity and the rights of all men to work and not be hungry. I lo...more

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I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to be some great penance done for the killing. If we...more