At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

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Because Been Blind Brother Brothers Dead French Germans Had Knew Last Men Moment Only Realised Realization See Them Then Were Wished

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