151 Quotes About Ww2
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- Author Julie Orringer
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Nothing at all to change: what a thing to want in the midst of war.
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- Author Irene Nemirovsky
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Elle variait ses hallucinations à son gré. Elle ne se contentait pas du passé; elle escomptait l'avenir! Elle changeait le présent selon sa volonté; elle mentait et se trompait elle-même, mais comme ses mensonges étaient ses propres oeuvres, elle les chérissait. Pour de brefs instants, elle était heureuse. Il n'y avait plus à son bonheur ces limites imposées par le réel. Tout était possible, tout était à sa portée. D'abord, la guerre était finie.
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- Author Louis de Bernières
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We soldiers knew next to nothing about what was going on in the centres of power. We received so many orders and counter-orders that there were times when we did not obey any of them at all, knowing that they were likely to be countermanded almost immediately.
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- Author Sir Laurens van der Post
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[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.
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- Author Stuart Finlay
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All the nut eaters and food faddists I have ever known, died early after a long period of senile decay - Winston Churchill
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- Author Heinrich Heine
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Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people
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- Author Dan Davin
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Even if this spring the dappled leaves should shelter our minds from the moon's pale echo we would still remember how once they were sheltered by our skulls only from the day's sun and the night's stars and never from what we feared and what we remembered
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- Author Jennifer Ryan
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Human nature defeats me sometimes, how greed and spite can lurk so divisively around the utmost courage and sacrifice.
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- Author Jack Mandelbaum
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In spite of all the terrible things that happened to me, I did not allow Hitler to make me feel less than human. I had been raised well and I knew who I was. My strategy was not to allow myself to hate. I knew I could be consumed by such hate
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