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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.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Each Everyday Friendly Heads Knew Lived Other Over Peasants Routines Shook Soldiers Terms Together Trusted War

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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.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Acknowledge Become Frozen Longer Overthrow Revolution Revolutionaries Right See Situation Then Tolerable

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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?

~Ernst Toller

Topics: After Ask Could Dead Death Earthly Face Gaze His Home Living Man Masks Mourning Never Now Pass Soul Stopping Stripped Were Where Which Who Without Would You Your

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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.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Broke Buried Community Darkness Deep Fact Forgotten Had Idea Light Like Man Me Out Real Sight Simple Simple Fact Suddenly Truth Unity Which

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And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Beat Continue Die Hearts Revolution Spirit While Will Workers

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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.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Annual Boy Chamber Day Dead Fair Figures Go Had Heroes Horrors Kings Look Now Pity Same Shocks Used Wax Which Without

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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.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Because Been Blind Brother Brothers Dead French Germans Had Knew Last Men Moment Only Realised Realization See Them Then Were Wished

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Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

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Topics: Country Defended Done Duty Each France Germans Germany Had His Own

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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.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Along Another Aware Became Broke Communication Company Details File Followed Formation French Front Front Line Gradually Group Leading Line Marching Single Soldiers Streets Them Through Town Trench

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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.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Am Bit Feel Front Go Happy How Last Life My Life Prove Think I Think I Am I Feel

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Playwright

Born: December 1st, 1893

Died: May 22nd, 1939

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