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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? "
Face
Home
Death
" 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. "
Me
Simple
Truth
" And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat. "
Hearts
Will
Spirit
" 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. "
Day
Dead
Look
" 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. "
Moment
Blind
Brother
" Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty. "
France
Done
Own
" 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. "
Communication
Company
Group
" 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. "
Life
My Life
Think
" I saw the dead without really seeing them. "
Them
Dead
Without
" 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. "
Own
Men
Him
" Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother? "
Mother
Others
People
" Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth. "
Truth
Slogans
Hear
" 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. "
Together
Soldiers
Over
" The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people. "
Revolution
People
Working
" The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized. "
Will
Socialism
Been
" 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. "
Revolution
Right
Then
" 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. "
Years
Stop
Old
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