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I, who have not cried since my childhood, I cry now like a child because of all that I shall never have. I cry over lost beauty and grandeur. I love everything that I should have embraced.
The Inferno (1917)
"There are those who say, 'I can't see farther than the end of my nose, and I forbid others to see farther!'"
Under Fire (1916)
There'll be a day when I shall begin something that I shan't finish — a walk, or a letter, or a sentence, or a dream.
Light (1919)
Paradis says to me, "That's war."
"Yes, that's it," he repeats in a far-away voice, "that's war. It's not anything else."
Under Fire (1916)
She was like a great rose that opens its heart to the whole world.
The Inferno (1917)
I do not regret my youth and its beliefs. Up to now, I have wasted my time to live. Youth is the true force, but it is too rarely lucid.
Light (1919)
We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings.
Light (1919)
The cult of the masterpieces of art and thought is the only impulse of the soul which, by general consent, has always soared above patriotic littlenesses.
Light (1919)
Desire wears the brain as much as thought wears it. All my being is agog for chances to shine and to be shared.
Light (1919)
Paradis, possessed by his notion, waved his hand towards the wide unspeakable landscape. and looking steadily on it repeated his sentence, 'War is that.
Under Fire (1916)
'Beautiful? Oh, hell! It's just as if an ox were to say, 'What a fine sight it must be, all those droves of cattle driven forward to the slaughter-house!'
Under Fire (1916)
To accomplish the majestically practical work, to shape the whole architecture like a statue, base nothing on impossible modifications of human nature; await nothing from pity.
Light (1919)
Truth is simple. They who say that truth is complicated deceive themselves, and the truth is not in them.
Light (1919)
I thought of all those wise men, poets, artists before me who had suffered, wept, and smiled on the road to truth.
The Inferno (1917)
It terrifies one to think for how short a time science has been methodical and of useful industry; and after all, is there anything on earth more marvelously easy than destruction?
Light (1919)
It is not a woman I want — it is all women. And I seek for them in those around me, one by one...
The Inferno (1917)
When I have spoken thus, we are no longer the same, for there are no more lies.
Light (1919)
All this is within us, and has fallen upon our heads. And God Himself, who is all these kinds of heavens in one, has fallen on our heads like thunder, and His infinity is ours.
The Inferno (1917)
War will come again after this one. It will come again as long as it can be determined by people other than those who fight. The same causes will produce the same effects, and the living will have to give up all hope.
Light (1919)
Will not thoughtful faces arise out of the darkness? (For this is Chaos and the animal Kingdom; and Reason being no more, she has yet to be born.
Light (1919)