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

We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.

I saw the dead without really seeing them.

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

I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

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.