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One man’s feeling is not always equal to all life is.
Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Will you leave Ella? Will you leave Keith?
It is that you have learnt one thing. And war is many things.
She lacked even the sultry glory of being his only mistress.
War, though, is its own logic.
shrine contains the Book of Souls. This lists over two million names of those who died in service to the Emperor of Japan in wars between 1867 and 1951.
with the simple, if guilty, hope that in the abyss that lay between his dream and his failure there might be something worth reading in which the truth could be felt.
He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die.
why we machine-gun waves of black Africans fighting for the French who are equally intent on killing us, Australians fighting for the English in the Middle East?
If their work building the railway line for the Japanese hadn’t yet become a madness that would kill them, it was already beginning to take a profound physical toll.
painfully aware that food would cure this and almost all of the afflictions he saw.
Should work here in the camp. Digging latrines. Nursing in the hospital. Orderlies. Building equipment for the sick. Crutches. New shelters. Operating theatres.
I’d rather get the Black Prince to steal some more tins of fish from the Japanese stores to keep the living from dying, Dorrigo Evans said.
The Black Prince helps me save lives.
Interesting. What do you focus on? Change and hope or the "inevitability" (which actually forces said outcome)?
