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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.

— Henri Barbusse Light (1919)

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In life's tragedy, separation is the only thing one sees.

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Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

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Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!

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The so-called inseparable cohesions of national interests vanish away as soon as you draw near to examine them. There are individual interests and a general interest, those two only.

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Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.

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