The things men did or felt they had to do.
Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.
The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.
Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.
-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.
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.