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Henri Barbusse Biography

Henri Barbusse (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi baʁbys]; May 17, 1873 – August 30, 1935) was a French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party. He was a lifelong friend of Albert Einstein.

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All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the features of their faces; they illuminate each other by the fierce preference which is akin to madness; they assert the reality of illusions; and for a moment they change falsehood into truth.

Chance, Faces, Falling In Love, Madness, Reality, World

People are machines of forgetfulness

Forgetfulness, Machines, People

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

Heartbreaking, Mankind, Slowness, Touch

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

Commits, Fighting, Large, Like, Suicide, War

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

Beings, Devotion, Ignorance, Study

There are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No - I recover myself - they do not deserve them. But we, instead of saying “I wish” must say “I will. ” And what we will, we must will to build it, with order, with method, beginning at the beginning, when once we have been as far as that beginning. We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings.

Eye, Eyes, Men, Moments, Order, Wings

I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.

Echoes, Look, Looks, Moments, People, Things

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

Want, Woman, Women

How I waited for you! How I longed for you! he stammered. "I thought of you all the time. I saw you all the time. Your smile was everywhere. " He lowered his voice and added, "Sometimes when people were talking commonplaces and your name happened to be mentioned, It would go through my heart like an electric current.

Added, Current, Heart, Name, Names, Talking

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.

Depth, Heart, Rags, Tired, Woman

It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.

Hours, Killed, Poison, Revolver, Suicide

Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.

War, World, Disease, Stop, Impossible

I see too deep and too much.

Deep, See, Too Deep, Too Much

I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

Heart, Keep, Pity, Remember

We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is what it is: To continue to be, to be more and more, to develop and to endure. All the force we have, all our energy and clearness of mind serve to intensify themselves in one way or another. We intensify ourselves with new impressions, new sensations, new ideas. We endeavor to take what we do not have and to add it to ourselves. Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death. That is what it is.

Develop, Humanity, Ideas, Immeasurable, Wisdom

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