How futile it had all been, that superhuman gallantry! It had amounted, in the end, to nothing but a passionate gesture of negation-the negation of all that the centuries had taught themselves through long eons of pain. (Vera Brittain)

How futile it had all been, that superhuman gallantry! It had amounted, in the end, to nothing but a passionate gesture of negation-the negation of all that the centuries had taught themselves through long eons of pain.

Vera Brittain

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