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Adrien Gustave Henri Barbusse, dit Henri Barbusse, né à Asnières le 17 mai 1873 et mort à Moscou le 30 août 1935, est un écrivain français. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. mai 1873 – 30. août 1935
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“Honte à la gloire militaire, honte aux armées, honte au métier de soldat, qui change les hommes tour à tour en stupides victimes et en ignobles bourreaux.”

Henri Barbusse livre Le Feu

Le Feu, 1916

“Le réel et le surnaturel, c’est la même chose.”

Henri Barbusse livre L'Enfer

L'Enfer, 1908

“L'avenir est dans les mains des esclaves, et on voit bien que le vieux monde sera changé par l'alliance que bâtiront un jour entre eux ceux dont le nombre et la misère sont infinis.”

Henri Barbusse livre Le Feu

Le Feu, 1916

“On ne meurt pas puisqu’on est seul; ce sont les autres qui meurent. Et cette phrase qui se répand en tremblant à mes lèvres, à la fois sinistre et radieuse, annonce que la mort est un faux dieu.”

Henri Barbusse livre L'Enfer

L'Enfer, 1908

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“Déjà, le mois de septembre, lendemain d'août et veille d'octobre et qui est par sa situation le plus émouvant des mois parsème les beaux jours de quelques fins avertissements. Déjà, on comprend ces feuilles mortes qui courent sur les pierres plates comme une bande de moineaux.”

Henri Barbusse livre Le Feu

Under Fire

“Ce serait un crime de montrer les beaux côtés de la guerre, même s'il y en avait!”

Henri Barbusse livre Le Feu

Le Feu, 1916

guerre

“La liberté et la fraternité sont des mots, tandis que l'égalité est une chose.”

Henri Barbusse livre Le Feu

Le Feu, 1916

liberté

“Chaque être est toute la vérité.”

Henri Barbusse livre L'Enfer

L'Enfer, 1908

vérité

“À l’ulcère du monde, il y a une grande cause générale. Vous l’avez nommée : c’est l’asservissement au passé, le préjugé séculaire, qui empêche de tout refaire proprement, selon la raison et la morale. L’esprit de tradition infecte l’humanité.”

Henri Barbusse livre L'Enfer

L'Enfer, 1908

monde

“Chaque être est seul au monde. Cela paraît absurde, contradictoire, d’énoncer une phrase pareille. Et pourtant, il en est ainsi… Mais il y a plusieurs êtres comme moi… Non, on ne peut pas dire cela. Pour dire cela, on se place à côté de la vérité en une sorte d’abstraction. On ne peut dire qu’une chose : Je suis seul.”

Henri Barbusse livre L'Enfer

L'Enfer, 1908

sortie , sort , vérité , monde

“Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je ne serai, désormais, ni heureux, ni malheureux. Je ne peux pas ressusciter. Je vieillirai aussi tranquille que je le suis aujourd’hui dans cette chambre où tant d’êtres ont laissé leur trace, où aucun être n’a laissé la sienne.
Cette chambre, on la retrouve à chaque pas. C’est la chambre de tout le monde. On croit qu’elle est fermée, non : elle est ouverte aux quatre vents de l’espace. Elle est perdue au milieu des chambres semblables, comme de la lumière dans le ciel, comme un jour dans les jours, comme moi partout.
Moi, moi ! Je ne vois plus maintenant que la pâleur de ma figure, aux orbites profondes, enterrée dans le soir, et ma bouche pleine d’un silence qui doucement, mais sûrement, m’étouffe et m’anéantit.
Je me soulève sur mon coude comme sur un moignon d’aile. Je voudrais qu’il m’arrivât quelque chose d’infini !”

Henri Barbusse livre L'Enfer

Hell

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“I have given notice. I am going away to-morrow evening, I with my tremendous memory. Whatever may happen, whatever tragedies may be reserved for me in the future, my thought will not be graver or more important when I shall have lived my life with all its weight.
But my whole body is one pain. I cannot stand on my legs any more. I stagger. I fall back on my bed. My eyes close and fill with smarting tears. I want to be crucified on the wall, but I cannot. My body becomes heavier and heavier and filled with sharper pain. My flesh is enraged against me.”

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The Inferno (1917), Ch. XVII

“Two sensuous lovers are not two friends. Much rather are they two enemies, closely attached to each other. I know it, I know it! There are perfect couples, no doubt — perfection always exists somewhere — but I mean us others, all of us, the ordinary people! I know! — the human being's real quality, the delicate lights and shadows of human dreams, the sweet and complicated mystery of personalities, sensuous lovers deride them, both of them! They are two egoists, falling fiercely on each other. Together they sacrifice themselves, utterly in a flash of pleasure.”

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Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face

“She sighs for the thought she has. She would like to be silent, but she must speak.
"We don't love each other any more," she says, embarrassed by the greatness of the things she utters; "but we did once, and I want to see our love again."”

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Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face

“One sees their shadows stirring on the shining sad expanse of the plain, and reflected in the pallid stagnant surface of the old trenches, which now only the infinite void of space inhabits and purifies, in the center of a polar desert whose horizons fume.
But their eyes are opened. They are beginning to make out the boundless simplicity of things. And Truth not only invests them with a dawn of hope, but raises on it a renewal of strength and courage.”

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Henri Barbusse livre Le Feu

Under Fire (1916), Ch. 24 - The Dawn

“He put his hands on the young woman's shoulders, and looked at her, in readiness for his eager embrace.
They held each other close, staggering. They said the same word at the same time, "At last!" That was all they said, but they said it over and over again in a low voice, chanting it together. Their eyes uttered the same sweet cry. Their breasts communicated it to each other. It seemed to be tying them together and making them merge into one. At last! Their long separation was over. Their love was victor. At last they were together. And I saw her quiver from head to foot. I saw her whole body welcome him while her eyes opened and then closed on him again. They made a great effort to speak to each other. The few shreds of conversation held them back a moment.”

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The Inferno (1917), Ch. XV

“The truth is revolutionary," gasps the nocturnal voice; "get you gone, you men of truth, you who cast disorder among ignorance, you who strew words and sow the wind; you contrivers, begone! You bring in the reign of men! But the multitude hates you and mocks you!”

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Light (1919), Ch. XIV - The Ruins

“When two overlords, jewel-set with glittering General Staffs, proclaim at the same time on either side of their throbbing mobilized frontiers, "We will save our country!" there is one immensity deceived and two victimized. There are two deceived immensities!
There is nothing else. That these cries can be uttered together in the face of heaven, in the face of truth, proves at a stroke the monstrosity of the laws which rule us, and the madness of the gods.”

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Light (1919), Ch. XVI - De Profundis Clamavi

“I have put my arm round her waist, and I am shaken by the sorrow which agitates her chest and throat, and sometimes shakes her rudely, the sorrow which does not belong to me, which belongs to no one, and is like a divinity.”

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Light (1919), Ch. XIX - Ghosts

“She is one with me. Love — it comes back to me. Love is an unhappy man and unhappy woman.
I awake — uttering the feeble cry of the babe new-born.”

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Light (1919), Ch. XVI - De Profundis Clamavi

“Death is not yet dead everywhere. Some points and surfaces still resist and budge and cry out, doubtless because it is dawn; and once the wind swept away a muffled bugle-call. There are some who still burn with the invisible fire of fever, in spite of the frozen periods they have crossed. But the cold is working into them. The immobility of lifeless things is passing into them, and the wind empties itself as it goes by.”

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Light (1919), Ch. XV - An Apparition

“It seems to me that truth has taken its place again in our little room, and become incarnate; that the greatest bond which can bind two beings together is being confessed, the great bond we did not know of, though it is the whole of salvation:
"Before, I loved you for my own sake; to-day, I love you for yours."”

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Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face

“Tenderness is greater than love. I do not admire carnal love when it is by itself and bare. I do not admire its disorderly selfish paroxysms, so grossly short-lived. And yet without love the attachment of two human beings is always weak. Love must be added to affection. The things it contributes to a union are absolutely needed — exclusiveness, intimacy, and simplicity.”

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The Inferno (1917), Ch. XV

“Let us spell out the Magna Charta of which we humbly catch sight. Let us say to the people of whom all peoples are made: "Wake up and understand, look and see; and having begun again the consciousness which was mown down by slavery, decide that everything must be begun again!"”

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Light (1919), Ch. XXII - Light

“I followed them with my eyes going through life, which would be nothing to them but fields, mountains, or forests. I saw them veiled in a kind of light, sheltered from darkness, protected for a time against the fearful spell of memory and thought.”

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The Inferno (1917), Ch. XV

“All my strength has come back to me. I am no longer wounded or ill. I carry her in my arms. It is difficult work to carry in your arms a being equal to yourself. Strong as you may be, you hardly suffice for it. And what I say as I look at her and see her, I say because I am strong and not because I am weak:
"You're everything for me because you are you, and I love all of you."”

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Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face

“Two sensuous lovers are not two friends. Much rather are they two enemies, closely attached to each other. I know it, I know it! There are perfect couples, no doubt — perfection always exists somewhere — but I mean us others, all of us, the ordinary people! I know!”

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the human being's real quality, the delicate lights and shadows of human dreams, the sweet and complicated mystery of personalities, sensuous lovers deride them, both of them! They are two egoists, falling fiercely on each other. Together they sacrifice themselves, utterly in a flash of pleasure.
Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face

“It would be a crime to exhibit the fine side of war, even if there were one!”

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Henri Barbusse livre Le Feu

murmured one of the somber soldiers.
The first man continued. "They'll say those things to us by way of paying us with glory, and to pay themselves, too, for what they haven't done. But military glory — it isn't even true for us common soldiers. It's for some, but outside those elect the soldier's glory is a lie, like every other fine-looking thing in war. In reality, the soldier's sacrifice is obscurely concealed. The multitudes that make up the waves of attack have no reward. They run to hurl themselves into a frightful inglorious nothing. You cannot even heap up their names, their poor little names of nobodies."
Under Fire (1916), Ch. 24 - The Dawn

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