“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.