"Though all our iconography would have it otherwise, the problem of our time—the Twentieth Century and its infernal legacies—is not a problem of humans who are evil. It is the problem of ideologies that don't work, that can't work; and of the humans—literally innumerable—who keep refusing to admit this." --Eva Rasolnikov, Marooned Among Losers (2004)
"August 1914
What in our lives is burnt
In the fire of this?
The heart's dear granary?
The much we shall miss?
Three lives hath one life—
Iron, honey, gold.
The gold, the honey gone—
Left is the hard and cold.
Iron are our lives
Molten right through our youth.
A burnt space through ripe fields,
A fair mouth's broken tooth."
—Isaac Rosenberg
"This is the total destruction of our country, but it is also a farce."
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