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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
Martha Gellhorn
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I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.
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I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.
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The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.
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Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.
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I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
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It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
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I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.
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Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
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Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.
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Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
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There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.
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