Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.
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Zum Autor"If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise."
"He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve."
"Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked."
"In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last."
"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."
"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."