- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.
- Nov 07, 2020
And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.
- Front Line
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.
- Nov 07, 2020
I saw the dead without really seeing them.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020