Henri Barbusse Quotes

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• Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
• We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.
• Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!
• It is not a woman I want - it is all women.
• Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.
• Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.
• I see too deep and too much.
• I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing!…
• All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the…
• I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of…
• At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.
• The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and…
• It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.
• How I waited for you! How I longed for you! he stammered. "I thought of you all the time. I saw you all the time.…
• I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

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