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I saw the dead without really seeing them.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Dead Really Saw Seeing Them Without

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Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Anything Could Had Hanging Him Later Learned Men Nobody Only Our Own Save Shot Themselves Tried Two Wire

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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Could French German Imagination Imagine Make Most Mother Others People Separated Suffer Sufferings Them Would

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Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Could Hear Slogans Truth Us Which

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The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Filled Heartbeat Like Millions People Revolution Vessel Working Working People

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The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Been Class Halt Realized Socialism Until Will Working Working Class

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We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.

~Ernst Toller

Topics: Between Cries Cry Cut Dragging Drill Ears Fingers Good Grew Heads Hours Like Minutes Old Our Stop Those Thrust Withered Years

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Playwright

Born: December 1st, 1893

Died: May 22nd, 1939

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