“In the end, in every war,
whoever won, the people always lost.”
Nguyễn Duy (1948)
"Oh Stone" (Cambodia, 1989)
Distant Road (1999)
“War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.”
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
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Emmanuel Levinas book Totality and Infinity
Context: The moral consciousness can sustain the mocking gaze of the political man only if the certitude of peace dominates the evidence of war. Such a certitude is not obtained by a simple play of antitheses. The peace of empires issued from war rests on war. It does not restore to the alienated beings their lost identity. For that a primordial and original relation with being is needed.
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“All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation…”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
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“In the lost battle,
Borne down by the flying,
Where mingles war's rattle
With groans of the dying.”
Canto III, stanza 11.
Marmion (1808)