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A review by kaddy
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
4.0
In the novel birds without Wings Louis de Bernières teaches a history lesson that left me desperately in love with the human soul. Every human soul.
" Do you know the strangest thing about being a soilder? It is that you are repeatedly ordered to commit suicide, and you obey"
" I can't convey to you the relief, the sheer pleasure, of abandoning the impossible struggle, the moment when one realizes that it is less horrifying to die than to continue to struggle for life"
" I was in Zante when I first heard cantadas, and I realized properly that there was after all something beautiful and joyful about the human soul"
" Do you know the strangest thing about being a soilder? It is that you are repeatedly ordered to commit suicide, and you obey"
" I can't convey to you the relief, the sheer pleasure, of abandoning the impossible struggle, the moment when one realizes that it is less horrifying to die than to continue to struggle for life"
" I was in Zante when I first heard cantadas, and I realized properly that there was after all something beautiful and joyful about the human soul"