"It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture."

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"It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture."

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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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"Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated."

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"I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either."

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