"We had set out in a rain of……" — Ernst Junger
"We had set out in a rain of flowers to seek the death of heroes. The war was our dream of greatness, power and glory. It was a man's work, a duel on the fields whose flowers would be stained with blood. There is no lovelier death in the world... Anything rather than stay at home, anything to make one with the rest."
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22 Quotes by Ernst Junger
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We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be…
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The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of…
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The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary.…
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The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The…
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I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a…
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The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file
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The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this…
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The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is…
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Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.
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Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]
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A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value.…
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Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of…
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