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The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.

~Fritz Kreisler

Topics: Any Artillery Crashing Deep Effect Extraordinary Had Heard Many Moral More Most Never Our Own Rear Roaring Sound Started Than Thought Us Welcome

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Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

~Fritz Kreisler

Topics: About Accustomed Actually Asleep Cannon Circumstances Conditions Exhaustion Fell Get Heads Human Men Most Nerves Noticed Number Our Over Quickly Quite Roaring Sheer Spite Trenches Unusual Us

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Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

~Fritz Kreisler

Topics: About Dozen Fairly Genius Geniuses Got Half Known Near Only Word World

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IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused.

~Fritz Kreisler

Topics: Army Confused Duty Find Impressions Officer Period Recall Short Trying Very War

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One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

~Fritz Kreisler

Topics: Almost Eye Firing Gets Hypnotic Line Mind Normal Noticing Observing Prevents Psychological State Strange Things Way Which While

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The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.

~Fritz Kreisler

Topics: Cure Found Me Outbreak Switzerland Taking War Were Where Wife

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Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.

~Fritz Kreisler

Topics: Accompanied Although Before Calling Colors Commission Day Duty Had Happened Immediately Later Left Me Officer Order Reached Report Resigned Switzerland Two Wife Wire Years

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What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.

~Fritz Kreisler

Topics: Any Everywhere Greatly Impressed Increased Kind Liberty Me Mob Order Particularly Police Regulations Relaxation Spite Strict Vienna

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My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.

~Fritz Kreisler

Topics: Actual Allowed Being Could Cross Developed Far Farther Front Go Her Hospitals Insisting Large Later Me Near Nurse Operations Order Rear Red Sent Services Than Troop Volunteered Wife

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Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard.

~Fritz Kreisler

Topics: Complaint Dropped Exhaustion Fatigue Heard However Manifested Men More More And More Murmur Out Sheer Signs Slowly Soon Strongly Themselves Would

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Composer

Born: February 2nd, 1875

Died: January 29th, 1962

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