Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!
Quotes from Light — Henri Barbusse
1873–1935 France
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Our heart is only made for one heart at a time.
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There must be justice, not charity.
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Tradition reigns, the gospel of the blind adoration of what was and what is — God without a head.
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I have searched, I have indistinctly seen, I have doubted. Now, I hope.
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Commonplace life has shipwrecks worse than in Shakespearean dramas.
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One after another, sundry women have occupied my life.
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I am looking for the happiness which lives.
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The dead are specters of the living, but the living are specters of the dead.
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That society is badly arranged which forces nearly all women to be servants.
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Only the idolatrous and the weak have need of illusion as of a remedy.
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It is not yet hostility around me; but it is already a rupture.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henri Barbusse (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.