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"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are."

"It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light."

"There's none so blind as they that won't see."

"Look around and you will see what others are not seeing."

"Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding!"

"Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?"

"Ignorance shuts the mind's door tight, wisdom swings it wide open."
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"I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh."

"We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces."

"This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war."

"Petnaest srećnih godina su kratke - odgovorih. Petnaest nesrećnih godina su duge i pružaju čoveku mnogo iskustva."

"Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best, in a way that was the most comfortable for themselves.But as far as we are concerned, that is the very root of their moral bankruptcy."

"Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!"

"A man has to have something he can put faith in. Can't you see that? What I want is someone that will love me, she would have me and I her. Otherwise a man may just go hang himself."

"What do they expect of us if a time ever comes when the war is over? Through the years our business has been killing."
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