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I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home.

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I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There ar...more

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For if this God exists, I thought, and if even you – with your lusts and your adulteries and the timid lies you used to tell – can change like this, w...more

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They killed him because he was too innocent to live.

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One always spoke of her like that in the third person as though she were not there. Sometimes she seemed invisible like peace.

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Innocence always calls mutely or protection when we would be so much wise to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost h...more

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Suddenly watching her feet, so light and precise and mistress of his shuffle, I was in love again.

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Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibilit...more

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They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of y...more

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So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem w...more

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Neither of us mentioned him when we woke on the morning after his death...One is not jealous of the dead, and it seemed easy to me that morning to tak...more

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Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever. I envied those who could believe in a God and I dis...more

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Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I c...more