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

~ Guy Sajer

Guy Sajer Death Dreams Happy Nightmares Reality Soldier War World War Ii

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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Guy Sajer Death Soldier War World War Ii

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

~ Guy Sajer

Guy Sajer Love Marriage Soldier War World War Ii

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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Guy Sajer Soldier Terror Timeless Vengeance War World War Ii

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

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Guy Sajer Soldier War World War Ii

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

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Guy Sajer Human Condition Humanity Soldier War World War Ii

What happened next? I retain nothing from those terrible minutes except indistinct memories which flash into my mind with sudden brutality, like apparitions, among bursts and scenes and visions that are scarcely imaginable. It is difficult even to even to try to remember moments during which nothing is considered, foreseen, or understood, when there is nothing under a steel helmet but an astonishingly empty head and a pair of eyes which translate nothing more than would the eyes of an animal facing mortal danger. There is nothing but the rhythm of explosions, more or less distant, more or less violent, and the cries of madmen, to be classified later, according to the outcome of the battle, as the cries of heroes or of murderers. And there are the cries of the wounded, of the agonizingly dying, shrieking as they stare at a part of their body reduced to pulp, the cries of men touched by the shock of battle before everybody else, who run in any and every direction, howling like banshees. There are the tragic, unbelievable visions, which carry from one moment of nausea to another: guts splattered across the rubble and sprayed from one dying man to another; tightly riveted machines ripped like the belly of a cow which has just been sliced open, flaming and groaning; trees broken into tiny fragments; gaping windows pouring out torrents of billowing dust, dispersing into oblivion all that remains of a comfortable parlor...

~ Guy Sajer

Guy Sajer Battle Soldier War World War Ii

I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.

~ Guy Sajer

Guy Sajer Death Fortune Life Love Soldier Survive War World War Ii

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

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Guy Sajer History Politics Soldiers Violence Wwii

Only victors have stories to tell,we the vanquished were then thought ofas cowards and weaklings whose memoriesand fears should not be remembered.

~ Guy Sajer

Guy Sajer History Politics Soldiers Violence Wwii

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.

~ Guy Sajer

Guy Sajer Memoir Third Reich World War Ii
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