"Two armies that fight each other is like……" — Henri Barbusse
"Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide."
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Henri Barbusse
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15 Quotes by Henri Barbusse
Henri Barbusse has 15 quotes on this site.
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We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally…
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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…
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All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached…
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I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me,…
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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…
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It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.
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