"But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions."

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“My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily.”

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“It was in 1915 the old world ended.”

“Men fight for liberty, and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”

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