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Henri Barbusse Quotes

People are machines of forgetfulness Picture Quote #1

There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living Picture Quote #1

Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease Picture Quote #1

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness Picture Quote #1

I went to sleep in Chaos, and then I awoke like the first man Picture Quote #1

Two armies at death grips - that is one great army committing suicide Picture Quote #1

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Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide Picture Quote #1

It is not a woman I want - it is all women Picture Quote #1

I see too deep and too much Picture Quote #1

He who would dig right down to the truth must simplify; his faith must be brutally simple, or he is lost. Laugh at the subtle shades and distinctions of the rhetoricians and the specialist physicians. Say aloud: This is what is, and then, that is what must be Picture Quote #1

Night fell. I looked for a word like mine, a word to lean upon, a word to sustain me. And it seemed to me that I was going along groping my way as if expecting some one to come from round the corner and tell me everything Picture Quote #1

And he continued to travesty the truth, and I was impotent - the truth, that profound thing whose voice was in my ears, whose shadow was in my eyes, and whose taste was in my mouth. Was I so utterly forsaken? Would no one speak the word I was in search of? Picture Quote #1

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The truth is revolutionary, gasps the nocturnal voice; get you gone, you men of truth, you who cast disorder among ignorance, you who strew words and sow the wind; you contrivers, begone! You bring in the reign of men! But the multitude hates you and mocks you! Picture Quote #1

I am frozen by a mass which supports me. My elbow sinks into it. It is the horse's belly; it's rigid leg obliquely bars the narrow circle from which my eyes cannot escape. Ah, it is dead! It seems to me that my breast is empty, yet still there is an echo in my heart. What I am looking for is life Picture Quote #1

Through centuries of centuries, fire and water face each other; the fire, upright, buoyant and leaping; the water flat, creeping, gliding, widening it's lines and it's surface. When they touch, is it the water which hisses and roars, or is it the fire? Picture Quote #1

War will come again after this one. It will come again as long as it can be determined by people other than those who fight. The same causes will produce the same effects, and the living will have to give up all hope Picture Quote #1

There have been those who magnificently dared. There have been bearers of the truth, men who groped in the world's tumult, trying to make plain order of it. They discover what we did not yet know; chiefly they discover what we no longer knew Picture Quote #1

Animals are innocence incarnate. This horse is like an enormous child, and if one wanted to point out life's innocence face to face, one would have to typify, not a little child, but a horse Picture Quote #1

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I have put my arm round her waist, and I am shaken by the sorrow which agitates her chest and throat, and sometimes shakes her rudely, the sorrow which does not belong to me, which belongs to no one, and is like a divinity Picture Quote #1

Once, when she was looking at me distressfully, she murmured, you - you've no more illusion at all. I pity you! At that moment, within the space of a flash, she was thinking of me only, and she pities me! She has found something in her grief to give me Picture Quote #1

My spirit is no longer what it was. Vaguely I seek, everywhere. I must see things with all their consequences, and right to their source. Against all the chains of facts I must have long arguments to bring; and the world's chaos requires an interpretation equally terrible Picture Quote #1

The eye is lost in all directions among the desolation where the multitude of men and women are hiding, as always and as everywhere. That is what is. Who will say, that is what must be! I have searched, I have indistinctly seen, I have doubted. Now, I hope Picture Quote #1

Let us spell out the Magna Charta of which we humbly catch sight. Let us say to the people of whom all peoples are made: Wake up and understand, look and see; and having begun again the consciousness which was mown down by slavery, decide that everything must be begun again! Picture Quote #1

I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening Picture Quote #1

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I proclaim the inevitable advent of the universal republic. Not the transient backslidings, nor the darkness and the dread, nor the tragic difficulty of uplifting the world everywhere at once will prevent the fulfillment of international truth Picture Quote #1

I hear no more sounds. Marie has finished. She comes up beside me. We have sought each other and come together as often as possible since the day when we saw so clearly that we no longer loved each other! Picture Quote #1

She sighs for the thought she has. She would like to be silent, but she must speak. We don't love each other any more, she says, embarrassed by the greatness of the things she utters; but we did once, and I want to see our love again Picture Quote #1

When I have spoken thus, we are no longer the same, for there are no more lies Picture Quote #1

To understand life, and love it to it's depths in a living being, that is the being's task, and that his masterpiece; and each of us can hardly occupy his time so greatly as with one other; we have only one true neighbor down here Picture Quote #1

You've done well to say all that! Yes, it is always easy to lie for a moment. You might have lied, but it would have been worse when we woke up from the lies. It's a reward to talk. Perhaps it's the only reward there is. She said that profoundly, right to the bottom of my heart Picture Quote #1

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People are machines of forgetfulness (Henri Barbusse Quotes) There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living (Henri Barbusse Quotes) Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease (Henri Barbusse Quotes) At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness (Henri Barbusse Quotes) I went to sleep in Chaos, and then I awoke like the first man (Henri Barbusse Quotes) Two armies at death grips - that is one great army committing suicide (Henri Barbusse Quotes) Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide (Henri Barbusse Quotes) It is not a woman I want - it is all women (Henri Barbusse Quotes) I see too deep and too much (Henri Barbusse Quotes) He who would dig right down to the truth must simplify; his faith must be brutally simple, or he is lost. Laugh at the subtle shades and distinctions of the rhetoricians and the specialist physicians. Say aloud: This is what is, and then, that is what must be (Henri Barbusse Quotes) Night fell. I looked for a word like mine, a word to lean upon, a word to sustain me. And it seemed to me that I was going along groping my way as if expecting some one to come from round the corner and tell me everything (Henri Barbusse Quotes) And he continued to travesty the truth, and I was impotent - the truth, that profound thing whose voice was in my ears, whose shadow was in my eyes, and whose taste was in my mouth. Was I so utterly forsaken? Would no one speak the word I was in search of? (Henri Barbusse Quotes) The truth is revolutionary, gasps the nocturnal voice; get you gone, you men of truth, you who cast disorder among ignorance, you who strew words and sow the wind; you contrivers, begone! You bring in the reign of men! But the multitude hates you and mocks you! (Henri Barbusse Quotes) I am frozen by a mass which supports me. My elbow sinks into it. It is the horse's belly; it's rigid leg obliquely bars the narrow circle from which my eyes cannot escape. Ah, it is dead! It seems to me that my breast is empty, yet still there is an echo in my heart. What I am looking for is life (Henri Barbusse Quotes) Through centuries of centuries, fire and water face each other; the fire, upright, buoyant and leaping; the water flat, creeping, gliding, widening it's lines and it's surface. When they touch, is it the water which hisses and roars, or is it the fire? (Henri Barbusse Quotes) War will come again after this one. It will come again as long as it can be determined by people other than those who fight. The same causes will produce the same effects, and the living will have to give up all hope (Henri Barbusse Quotes) There have been those who magnificently dared. There have been bearers of the truth, men who groped in the world's tumult, trying to make plain order of it. They discover what we did not yet know; chiefly they discover what we no longer knew (Henri Barbusse Quotes) Animals are innocence incarnate. This horse is like an enormous child, and if one wanted to point out life's innocence face to face, one would have to typify, not a little child, but a horse (Henri Barbusse Quotes) I have put my arm round her waist, and I am shaken by the sorrow which agitates her chest and throat, and sometimes shakes her rudely, the sorrow which does not belong to me, which belongs to no one, and is like a divinity (Henri Barbusse Quotes) Once, when she was looking at me distressfully, she murmured, you - you've no more illusion at all. I pity you! At that moment, within the space of a flash, she was thinking of me only, and she pities me! She has found something in her grief to give me (Henri Barbusse Quotes) My spirit is no longer what it was. Vaguely I seek, everywhere. I must see things with all their consequences, and right to their source. Against all the chains of facts I must have long arguments to bring; and the world's chaos requires an interpretation equally terrible (Henri Barbusse Quotes) The eye is lost in all directions among the desolation where the multitude of men and women are hiding, as always and as everywhere. That is what is. Who will say, that is what must be! I have searched, I have indistinctly seen, I have doubted. Now, I hope (Henri Barbusse Quotes) Let us spell out the Magna Charta of which we humbly catch sight. Let us say to the people of whom all peoples are made: Wake up and understand, look and see; and having begun again the consciousness which was mown down by slavery, decide that everything must be begun again! (Henri Barbusse Quotes) I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening (Henri Barbusse Quotes) I proclaim the inevitable advent of the universal republic. Not the transient backslidings, nor the darkness and the dread, nor the tragic difficulty of uplifting the world everywhere at once will prevent the fulfillment of international truth (Henri Barbusse Quotes) I hear no more sounds. Marie has finished. She comes up beside me. We have sought each other and come together as often as possible since the day when we saw so clearly that we no longer loved each other! (Henri Barbusse Quotes) She sighs for the thought she has. She would like to be silent, but she must speak. We don't love each other any more, she says, embarrassed by the greatness of the things she utters; but we did once, and I want to see our love again (Henri Barbusse Quotes) When I have spoken thus, we are no longer the same, for there are no more lies (Henri Barbusse Quotes) To understand life, and love it to it's depths in a living being, that is the being's task, and that his masterpiece; and each of us can hardly occupy his time so greatly as with one other; we have only one true neighbor down here (Henri Barbusse Quotes) You've done well to say all that! Yes, it is always easy to lie for a moment. You might have lied, but it would have been worse when we woke up from the lies. It's a reward to talk. Perhaps it's the only reward there is. She said that profoundly, right to the bottom of my heart (Henri Barbusse Quotes)

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