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Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.
Under Fire (1916)
We're forgetting-machines. Men are things that think a little but chiefly forget. That's what we are.
Under Fire (1916)
All we can see is only a speck. You've got to remember that this morning there's three thousand kilometers of equal evils, or nearly equal, or worse.
Under Fire (1916)
The end of the tempest and the long trouble is not yet.
Under Fire (1916)
Already there is uneasy hesitation in these castaways' discussion of their tragedy, in the huge masterpiece of destiny that they are roughly sketching.
Under Fire (1916)
It'll be no good telling about it, eh? They wouldn't believe you; not out of malice or through liking to pull your leg, but because they couldn't.
Under Fire (1916)
"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)
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)
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)
The emptied towns and the villages destroyed, they are a wilderness of our making. Yes, war is all of us, and all of us together.
Under Fire (1916)
I tell them that fraternity is a dream, an obscure and uncertain sentiment; that while it is unnatural for a man to hate one whom he does not know, it is equally unnatural to love him.
Under Fire (1916)
Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.
Under Fire (1916)
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)
We've seen too much to remember.
Under Fire (1916)
There are all those things against you. Against you and your great common interests which as you dimly saw are the same thing in effect as justice, there are not only the sword-wavers, the profiteers, and the intriguers.
Under Fire (1916)
There are those who admire the exchange of flashing blows, who hail like women the bright colors of uniforms; those whom military music and the martial ballads poured upon the public intoxicate as with brandy; the dizzy-brained, the feeble-minded, the superstitious, the savages.
Under Fire (1916)