“Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.”

—Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

“War is your comrade struck dead beside you, his shared cigarette still alive in your lips.”

—Edwin Rolfe

No Man Knows War

“Being, not doing, is the first aim of the mystic.”

—Evelyn Underhill

Mysticism