Henri Barbusse quotes - page 5

I do not regret my youth and its beliefs. Up to now, I have wasted my time to live. Youth is the true force, but it is too rarely lucid. (Henri Barbusse)
We do not die. Each human being is alone in the world. View quote
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To live is to be happy to live. View quote
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There is nothing between the paradise dreamed of and the paradise lost. There is nothing, since we always want what we have not got. We hope, and then we regret. View quote
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One after another, sundry women have occupied my life. View quote
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We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings. View quote
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I place the Republic before France. France is ourselves. The Republic is ourselves and the others. The general welfare must be put much higher than national welfare, because it is much higher. View quote
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All the truths taken together make only one truth. I had had to wait until that day to learn this simple thing. It was this truth of truths which I needed. Not because of my love of mankind. It is not true that we love mankind. No one ever has loved, does love, or will love mankind. It was for myself, solely for myself, that I sought to attain the full truth, which is above emotion, above peace, even above life, like a sort of death. View quote
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We are in a great night of the world. View quote
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I was walking, but I seemed to be falling from dream to dream, from desire to desire. A door ajar, an open window gave me a pang. A woman passing by grazed against me, a woman who told me nothing of what she might have told me. I dreamed of her tragedy and of mine. View quote
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I would give my life for you, and I forgive you beforehand for everything you might ever do to make yourself happy. (Henri Barbusse)
On this seat - where she came to me for the first time, which was once so important to us that it seemed as if the background of things all about us had been created by us - we sit down to-day, after we have vainly sought in nature the traces of our transit. View quote
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I am looking for the happiness which lives. View quote
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The truth is that the love of mankind is a single season among so many others. The truth is that we have within us something much more mortal than we are, and that it is this, all the same, which is all-important. View quote
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The end of the tempest and the long trouble is not yet. View quote
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That society is badly arranged which forces nearly all women to be servants. View quote
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War will come again after this one. It will come again as long as it can be determined by people other than those who fight. View quote
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I reflect that I am infinitely attached to this woman, that it is not true to say she is of less moment to me because desire no longer throws me on her as it used to do. View quote
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There'll be a day when I shall begin something that I shan't finish - a walk, or a letter, or a sentence, or a dream. View quote
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She was like a great rose that opens its heart to the whole world. View quote
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What I have seen is going to disappear, since I shall do nothing with it. (Henri Barbusse)
Commonplace life has shipwrecks worse than in Shakespearean dramas. View quote
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Tradition reigns, the gospel of the blind adoration of what was and what is - God without a head. View quote
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We do not die since we are alone. It is the others who die. And this sentence, which comes to my lips tremulously, at once baleful and beaming with light, announces that death is a false god. View quote
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Ah, it seems that truth goes farther in all directions than one thought! We bend over the wrong that animals suffer, for them we wholly understand. View quote
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