Hours Quote by Henri Barbusse

“It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.”

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“He fell back. He had cried out so loud that even if there had been no breach in the wall, I should have heard him in my room. He voiced his whole dream, he threw it out passionately. This sincerity, which was indifferent to everything, had a definite significance which bruised my heart. "Forgive me. Forgive me. It is almost…

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“Separation! They were very much alike in ideas and temperament, and just then they were helping each other as much as they could. But I saw clearly--I who was a spectator apart from men and whose gaze soared above them--that they were strangers, and that in spite of all appearances they did not see nor hear each other any more.…

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“It is not by sin that we attain happiness, nor is it by virtue, nor is it by that kind of divine fire by…

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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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There are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No - I recover…

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“She was thinking of him. Doubled up, small as a child, she gazed intently into the distance, at the man who was not there. She bowed to this image like a suppliant, and felt a divine reflection from it falling upon her--from the offended man, the wounded man, from the master, from him who was everywhere except where they were,…

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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. However wrong we may go in the dark and the useless work of our hearts working incessantly, and whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with…

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“I had no genius, no mission to fulfill, no great heart to bestow. I had nothing and I deserved nothing. But all the same…

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“Sin, sin! To rid myself of boredom by committing a crime, to break up monotony by deceiving. To sin in order to be a…

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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 other by…

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At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

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I see too deep and too much.

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