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"Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it." — Frank Wedekind
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"The laws of this world are for children." — Frank Wedekind
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"Monuments are for the living, not the dead." — Frank Wedekind
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"Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures." — Frank Wedekind
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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." — Ernst Toller
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"And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat." — Ernst Toller
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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." — Ernst Toller
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"But before my transfer came through I fell ill. Heart and stomach both broke down, and I was sent back to hospital in Strassburg." — Ernst Toller
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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." — Ernst Toller
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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." — Ernst Toller
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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?" — Ernst Toller
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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." — Ernst Toller
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"I saw the dead without really seeing them." — Ernst Toller
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"I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean." — Ernst Toller
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"In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service." — Ernst Toller
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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." — Ernst Toller
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"Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?" — Ernst Toller
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"My hands shook and my heart pounded wildly. The air was filled with a sudden high-pitched whine, and a brown cloud of dust dimmed my field of vision." — Ernst Toller
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"My head was in a whirl, and I was trembling with excitement, surrendered to the passion of the moment like a gambler, like a hunter." — Ernst Toller
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"Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth." — Ernst Toller
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"Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war." — Ernst Toller
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