Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.