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“We are each what never leaves us, what we never see the back of is the self. But what loves us is at the back, as Eurydice was escorting him out without his knowing.”

Book:Forth A Raven

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“Not everyone’s life is like a house that belongs to him and that he can go on decorating ever more richly with the furniture of his memory. Some people live in hotels, in many hotels. The years close behind them like hotel doors— and the only thing that remains is a little courage and no regrets.”

War Uncertainty Lost Generation Unsettled

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

“الحرب عمل غير شخصي .. ولكن القتل مسألة شخصية”

War Murder

Book:وداعًا أيها الملل

Source: وداعًا أيها الملل

“Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)”

War Normal Normalcy

Book:The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Source: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“There was a guy next to my cot name of Dan, who had been blowed up inside a tank. He was all burnt and had tubes going in and out of him everyplace, but I never heard him holler. He talk real low and quiet, and after a day or so, him and me got to be friends. Dan came from the state of Connecticut, and he was a teacher of history when they grabbed him up and threw him into the Army. But because he was smart, they sent him to officer school and made him a lieutenant. Most of the lieutenants I know were about as simple minded as me, but Dan was different. He had his own philosophy about why we were here, which was that we were doing maybe the wrong thing for the right reasons, or vice-versa, but whatever it is, we ain't doing it right. Him being a tank officer and all, he say it ridiculous for us to be waging a war in a place where we can't hardly use our tanks on account of the land is mostly swamp or mountains. I told him about Bubba and all, and he nod his head very sadly and said there will be a lot more Bubbas to die before this thing is over.”

War Death Warfare Die

Book:Forrest Gump

Source: Forrest Gump

“[W]e are hardened to what we know, and we rationalise and even justify cruelties practised by us and our like while retaining the capacity to be outraged, even disgusted by practices equally cruel which, under the hands of strangers, take a different form.”

War Punishment Cruelty Warfare

Book:A History of Warfare

Source: A History of Warfare

“What draws me to Palestine, then, is neither nationalism not patriotism, but my sense of justice, my refusal to remain silent in the face of injustice, my unwillingness to just go on living my life -- and enjoying the privileges of a tenured university professor – while trying to block out and ignore what Wordsworth once called the still, sad music of humanity.”

War Occupation Palestine

Book:Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

Source: Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

“Most people thought that we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.”

War Delusion Holocaust Red Army Nazis Ghetto

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Shit!" I shouted at him. "Now listen, my friend. The youth have no role. They have no jobs. They have no money. They are not in power and they do not make decisions. If there is going to be a war, they will be dumped into the army. And they will be killed like young men everywhere have been killed - whether or not they believe in the war. Having no role is their role.”

War Youth Filipino Role

Author:F. Sionil José

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