No Soldier Outlives A Thousand Chances.

Katczinsky Says It Is All To Do With Education - It Softens The Brain.

Keep Things At Arm's Length... If You Let Anything Come Too Near You Want To Hold On To It. And There Is Nothing A Man Can Hold On To.

We Came To Realise - First With Astonishment, Then Bitterness, And Finally With Indifference - That Intellect Apparently Wasn't The Most Important Thing...not Ideas, But The System; Not Freedom, But Drill. We Had Joined Up With Enthusiasm And With Good Will; But They Did Everything To Knock That Out Of Us.

Nothing Is The Mirror In Which You See The World.

Heaven Has No Favorites