Guy Sajer Quotes

#1. Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

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#2. Only the victors have stories to tell. We, the vanquished, were all cowards and weaklings by then, whose memories, fears, and enthusiasms should not be remembered.

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#3. The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.

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#4. War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

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#5. It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs them later.

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#6. A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.

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#7. Only victors have stories to tell,
we the vanquished were then thought of
as cowards and weaklings whose memories
and fears should not be remembered.

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#8. Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

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#9. No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

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#10. As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim of a practical joke, a farce in which he had believed until suddenly he realized his folly.

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#11. Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

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