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.

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

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.

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.

The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage.