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After all, isn't it just as well, Bob, that they should have their bit of fun that is so important to them? It keeps them going, staves off the evil day when they will be alone. And to be alone, really alone, without illusion, that way lies madness—and suicide.

— Erich Maria Remarque Three Comrades (1936)

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A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends.

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It is when one is alone that one begins to observe Nature and to love her.

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A hospital alone shows what war is.

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We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers — we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.

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Mortality is man's invention; not in the logic of life.

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