“(Lola): Only mad men and cowards refuse to go to the war, when their homeland is in danger! - (Bardamu): So, hurrah for the mad men and the cowards!”

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline, book Journey to the End of the Night

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Journey to the End of the Night (1932)

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