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• A hospital alone shows what war is.
• In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack…
• The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of…
• Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
• We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
• The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these…
• Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years…
• To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the…
• The war has ruined us for everything.
• I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds.…
• Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
• Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one…

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