Paavo Haavikko quotes

War is time that has marched through the mind, and is later presented in such a way that boots are the be-all and end-all. Thus it is important to teach the soldier exactly how to treat the ghosts, how to address the fog, or how time and space appear on paper to describe absolutely everything. Do not say that was true in antiquity, as there the same sentence changed many times, petrified into mountains, precisely where it was open... (Paavo Haavikko)