We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
(All Quiet on the Western Front )
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Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.
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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.
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I love him, his shoulders, his angular, stooping figure - and at the same time I see behind him woods and stars, and a clear voice utters words that bring me peace, to me, a soldier in big boots, belt, and a knapsack, taking the road that lies before him under the high heaven, quickly forgetting and seldom sorrowful, for ever pressing on under the wide night sky.
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Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.
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