On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.

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A hospital alone shows what war is.

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I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms...

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They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than...

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We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which,...