There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into the mist as though it would prop up the melancholy sky and protect beneath itself the faint lonely flame on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which looked like the last grave of mankind in the midst of night and loneliness.

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.

Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.

Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.