For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter… - Siegfried Sassoon
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter…
- Siegfried Sassoon
The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the sa… - Siegfried Sassoon
The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the sa…
And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed. - Siegfried Sassoon
And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.
Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral. - Siegfried Sassoon
Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.
For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we … - Siegfried Sassoon
For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we …
And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken. - Siegfried Sassoon
And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.
In me the tiger sniffs the rose. - Siegfried Sassoon
In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete. - Siegfried Sassoon
The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil … - Siegfried Sassoon
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil …
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