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Henri Barbusse has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
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We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.
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Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!
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It is not a woman I want - it is all women.
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Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.
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Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.
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I see too deep and too much.
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I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes…
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All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each…
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I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in…
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At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.
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The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be…
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The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be…
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