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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."
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"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here."
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"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble."
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"When birds burp, it must taste like bugs."
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"Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at."
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"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."
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"But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns."
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"The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall."
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"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."
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"Feathers predate birds."
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"It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries."
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"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."
Loneliness
"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."
War
"There is no guilt in feelings ever."
Emotion
"Our knowledge of life is limited to death."
Experience
"We were never very demonstrative in our family; poor folk who toil and are full of cares are not so. It is not their way to protest what they already know. When my mother says to me 'dear boy,' it means much more than when another uses it."
Transformation
"We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here."
Peace
"Sweet words. Gentle deceptive balm. Help, love, to belong together, to come back again- words, sweet words. Nothing but words. How many words existed for this simple, wild, cruel attraction of two bodies! What a rainbow of imagination, lies, sentiment, and self-deception enclosed it!"
Attraction
"Beside us lies a fair-headed recruit in utter terror. He has buried his face in his hands, his helmet has fallen off. I fish hold of it and try to put it back on his head. He looks up, pushes the helmet off and like a child creeps under my arm, his head close to my breast. The little shoulders heave. Shoulders just like Kemmerich's. I let him be."
Compassion
"One always expects something else."
Inspirational
"The things men did or felt they had to do."
Gratitude
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