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The High Auction

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“They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about, and you gave him money and York Harding's books on the East and said, 'Go ahead. Win the East for democracy.' He never saw anything he hadn't heard in a lecture hall, and his writers and his lecturers made a fool of him.”

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Book:The Quiet American
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“He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in war.”

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Book:All quiet on the western front
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“- Tudore, vezi tu, viața e o multitudine de momente în care suntem obligați să alegem. Chiar și noi, militarii, avem această posibilitate. Datoria noastră de militari ne obligă conform regulamentelor militare, să ne supunem ordinelor pe care le primim pe scară ierarhică. Asta ne e Datoria. Dar, Onoarea noastră de om ne dă posibilitatea să alegem dacă executăm acele ordine sau nu. Evident, în cazul în care alegem să punem mai presus Onoarea decât Datoria, atunci trebuie să acceptăm responsabilitatea acestei alegeri cu toate consecințele care derivă de pe urma ei. Și ca să-ți răspund la întrebare, ei bine, eu m-am bucurat că n-am fost pus în situația de a fi nevoit să aleg între cele două.”

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Book:La Granița dintre Datorie și Onoare
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“He said he had not seen much other than change for four years, and he guessed the promise of it was part of what made up the war frenzy in the early days. The powerful draw of new faces, new places, new lives. And new laws whereunder you might kill all you wanted and not be jailed, but rather be decorated. Men talked of war as if they committed it to preserve what they had and what they believed. But Inman now guessed it was boredom with the repetition of the daily rounds that had made them take up weapons. The endless arc of the sun, wheel of seasons. War took a man out of that circle of regular life a made a season of its own, not much dependent on anything else.”

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Book:Cold Mountain: A Novel
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