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"In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while."
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"I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self."
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"In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while."
Absence
"In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time."
Home
"The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity."
War
"I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it."
War
"The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit."
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"I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them."
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"Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind."
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"I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either."
War
"It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture."
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"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."
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"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
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"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."
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"If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!"
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"In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway."
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"Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for."
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"In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State."
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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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"There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence."
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"If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence."
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