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/ page 1144 of 1205 /'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
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But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
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The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
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Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.
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Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
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Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.
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And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.
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The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.
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The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
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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.
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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.
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After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?
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We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.
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I saw the dead without really seeing them.
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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.
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Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.
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