“Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought of as cowards and weaklings whose memories and fears should not be remembered.” — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
“Only the victors have stories to tell. We, the vanquished, were all cowards and weaklings by then, whose memories, fears, and enthusiasms should not be remembered.” — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance. — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
I have used the words and expressions which my experiences from Minsk to Kharkov to the Don suggested to me. But I should have… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories. — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
“As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime. — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
“Abandoned by a God in whom many of us believed, we lay prostrate and dazed in our demi-tomb. From time to time, one of… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death. — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
“A day came when I should have died, and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
“What happened next? I retain nothing from those terrible minutes except indistinct memories which flash into my mind with sudden brutality, like apparitions, among… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
“Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought of as cowards and weaklings whose memories and fears should not be… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love. — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
“Only the victors have stories to tell. We, the vanquished, were all cowards and weaklings by then, whose memories, fears, and enthusiasms should not… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
