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War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs i

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered. – Thomas de Quincey

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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. – J. G. Ballard

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. – St. Jerome

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Morality is contraband in war. – Mahatma Gandhi

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