“In the last days before the attack a strange feeling, not so much of confidence as of fatalism, pervaded the German tank forces- if this strength, this enormous agglomeration that surrounded them on every side, could not break the Russians, then nothing would.”

“It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German.”

“What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.”

“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”

“There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”

“From moment then to moment their desireGained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire;Passion engulfed them, and these lovers layEntwined together till the break of day.”