"I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another."
Photograph by Lee Greenfeld © 2013
Text from All Quiet On The Western Front, 1929
No comments:
Post a Comment