Birdsong Quotes- Part 6 France 1918

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"I can't be pleased by anything that carries on this war. But I'm not displeased. I'm indifferent"

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Page 427

"When they read the other words they will want to be sick. When they read these, they will bow their head, just a little. 'Final advance and pursuit' "

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Page 431

"Nothing is beyond redemption"

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Page 435

"he was regarded as a lucky charm. Exaggerated rumours reached them of the witchcraft he performed in his dugout"

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Page 437

"There were no distinct worlds, only one creation, to which he was bound by the beating of his blood"

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Page 449

"If by searching he brought death closer, it would not matter; there would be some decorum in their dying deep deneath the country they had fought so long to protect"

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Page 451

"choose to hold your hand, to hold close to you in the beginning of eternity?"

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Page 451

"I wondered what my life had been about until he came along. It was nothing"

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Page 452

"Byrne or Douglas. I would trust them to breathe for me, to pump my blood with their hearts"

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Page 462

"He worked with the instinct of an animal, brutal, stupid and blind. He did not think about what he did or why he did it"

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Page 471

"My boy, gone. What a world we made for him. I'm glad he's dead"

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Page 471

"Their pity would be... helpless"

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Page 472

"No one can win"

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Page 472

"That's why I made my own reasons for living"

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Page 483

"weeping at the bitter strangeness of their human lives"

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Page 485

"No hurricane of bullets met him, no tearing metal kiss"

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