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The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

~Georges Duhamel

Topics: Afloat Beyond He Himself His Horizon Keep Land Measures Muscles None Open Seas Strength Swimmer

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We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

~Georges Duhamel

Topics: Know Memory Moments Our Test True True Value Until Value

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

~Georges Duhamel

Topics: Always Brave Everyone Say Thinks

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Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

~Georges Duhamel

Topics: Beautiful Full Holes Memory Most Most Beautiful Net Prizes Slip Through Trust Your

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I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

~Georges Duhamel

Topics: Absurd God Idea Make Much Respect Responsible Too Too Much World

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There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

~Georges Duhamel

Topics: Bleeding French Inflicted Town Which Wounds

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In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

~Georges Duhamel

Topics: Beds Every Fate Men Piety Prepared Public Side Verdict Which

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Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

~Georges Duhamel

Topics: Day Every Every Day Fills Gentle Happy Intoxication Life Loved Merely More Now Shadows Sleep Something Suffering Terrible Than Them Themselves Those Were

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Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

~Georges Duhamel

Topics: Gestures Humble Later Let Us Lose Magnitude Me Misery None Note Now Realise Sacrifice Slightest Tell Them Think Times Together Us Will Words

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We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

~Georges Duhamel

Topics: After Bare Debate Divide Flesh Grave Hour Knife Know Lay Must Nothing Now Soul Till Withdraw Work

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: June 30th, 1884

Died: April 13th, 1966

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