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> [People are machines of forgetfulness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-barbusse/people-are-machines-of-forgetfulness/)

[Henri Barbusse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-barbusse/)

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## More by Henri Barbusse

> [“He fell back. He had cried out so loud that even if there had been no breach in the wall, I should have heard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-barbusse/he-fell-back-he-had-cried-out-so-loud-that-even-if-there-had-been-no/)

[Henri Barbusse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-barbusse/)

> [“Separation! They were very much alike in ideas and temperament, and just then they were helping each other as much as they could. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-barbusse/separation-they-were-very-much-alike-in-ideas-and-temperament-and/)

[Henri Barbusse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-barbusse/)

> [“It is not by sin that we attain happiness, nor is it by virtue, nor is it by that kind of divine fire by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-barbusse/it-is-not-by-sin-that-we-attain-happiness-nor-is-it-by-virtue-nor-is/)

[Henri Barbusse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-barbusse/)

> [Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-barbusse/let-everything-be-remade-on-simple-lines-there-is-only-one-people/)

[Henri Barbusse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-barbusse/)

> [There are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No - I recover…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-barbusse/there-are-cloudy-moments-when-one-asks-himself-if-men-do-not-deserve/)

[Henri Barbusse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-barbusse/)

> [“She was thinking of him. Doubled up, small as a child, she gazed intently into the distance, at the man who was not there.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-barbusse/she-was-thinking-of-him-doubled-up-small-as-a-child-she-gazed/)

[Henri Barbusse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-barbusse/)

> [“We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. However wrong we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-barbusse/we-have-the-divinity-of-our-great-misery-and-our-solitude-with-its/)

[Henri Barbusse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-barbusse/)

> [“I had no genius, no mission to fulfill, no great heart to bestow. I had nothing and I deserved nothing. But all the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-barbusse/i-had-no-genius-no-mission-to-fulfill-no-great-heart-to-bestow-i-had/)

[Henri Barbusse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-barbusse/)

> [“Sin, sin! To rid myself of boredom by committing a crime, to break up monotony by deceiving. To sin in order to be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-barbusse/sin-sin-to-rid-myself-of-boredom-by-committing-a-crime-to-break-up/)

[Henri Barbusse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-barbusse/)

> [All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-barbusse/all-lovers-in-the-world-are-alike-they-fall-in-love-by-chance-they/)

[Henri Barbusse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-barbusse/)

> [At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-barbusse/at-the-touch-of-mankind-things-wear-away-with-heartbreaking-slowness/)

[Henri Barbusse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-barbusse/)

> [I see too deep and too much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-barbusse/i-see-too-deep-and-too-much/)

[Henri Barbusse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-barbusse/)

> [I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-barbusse/i-am-more-sensitive-than-other-people-things-that-other-people-would/)

[Henri Barbusse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-barbusse/)

> [“They felt that everything was fleeting, that everything wore out, that everything that was not dead would die, and that even the illusory ties…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-barbusse/they-felt-that-everything-was-fleeting-that-everything-wore-out-that/)

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> [“Ah, my poor child, how far gone you are in your blindness! Why did you have me summoned?" "I had hopes, I had hopes."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-barbusse/ah-my-poor-child-how-far-gone-you-are-in-your-blindness-why-did-you/)

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