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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. -- Ernst Toller
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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. -- Ernst Toller
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Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war. -- Ernst Toller
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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. -- Ernst Toller
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We were all of us cogs in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward, nobody knew where, sometimes backwards, nobody knew why. -- Ernst Toller
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We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries. -- Ernst Toller
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Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them. -- Ernst Toller
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As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. -- Ernst Toller
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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. -- Ernst Toller
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Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth. -- Ernst Toller
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I saw the dead without really seeing them. -- Ernst Toller
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After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now? -- Ernst Toller
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Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves. -- Ernst Toller
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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. -- Ernst Toller
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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. -- Ernst Toller
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In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service. -- Ernst Toller
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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. -- Ernst Toller
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The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people. -- Ernst Toller
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Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty. -- Ernst Toller
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And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat. -- Ernst Toller
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The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized. -- Ernst Toller