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Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.
Under Fire (1916)
I went to sleep in Chaos, and then I awoke like the first man.
Light (1919)
The others, one by one, straighten themselves. The storm is falling more heavily on the expanse of flayed and martyred fields. The day is full of night.
Under Fire (1916)
Each country will be a moral force, and no longer a brutal force; while all brutal forces clash with themselves, all moral forces make mighty harmony together.
Light (1919)
In those former times we lived. Now we hardly live any more, since we have lived. They who we were are dead, for we are here.
Light (1919)
They do not know what they are doing.
Light (1919)
We've seen too much to remember.
Under Fire (1916)
It is not true, it is not true.
Light (1919)
To live is to be happy to live.
Light (1919)
Sorrow, like joy, is absolute.
The Inferno (1917)
The dead do not survive except upon earth. Wherever there are revolutionaries, there is Lenin. But one may also say that it is in Stalin more than anyone else that the thoughts and words of Lenin are to be found. He is the Lenin of today.
"I have such respect for the actual truth that there are moments when I do not dare to call things by their name," the poet ended.
The Inferno (1917)
Once, after we had recalled to each other an enchanted summer evening, I said, "We loved each other," and she answered, "I remember."
Light (1919)
Ah, it seems that truth goes farther in all directions than one thought! We bend over the wrong that animals suffer, for them we wholly understand.
Light (1919)
All is madness. And there is no one who will dare to rise and say that all is not madness, and that the future does not so appear — as fatal and unchangeable as a memory.
Light (1919)
We do not die since we are alone. It is the others who die. And this sentence, which comes to my lips tremulously, at once baleful and beaming with light, announces that death is a false god.
The Inferno (1917)
I place the Republic before France. France is ourselves. The Republic is ourselves and the others. The general welfare must be put much higher than national welfare, because it is much higher.
Light (1919)
We hear talk of sanctified selfishness, of the adorable expansion of one race across the others, of noble hatreds and glorious conquests, and we see these ideals trying to take shape on all hands.
Light (1919)
All we can say is: I am alone.
The Inferno (1917)
The noblest and most fruitful work of the human intelligence is to make a clean sweep of every enforced idea — of advantages or meanings — and to go right through appearances in search of the eternal bases.
Light (1919)