Clerambault

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Romain Rolland. Clerambault

Clerambault

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INTRODUCTION [1]

R.R

PART ONE

PART TWO

PART THREE

"FORGIVE US, YE DEAD!"

TO HER WHOM WE HAVE LOVED

THE LOVED ONE'S REPLY

TO THE LIVING

PART FOUR

PART FIVE

MILTON

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Romain Rolland

The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War

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With an unconscious and feverish bad faith kept up by his affection, he sought in everything that he saw, heard, or read, for arguments to prop up his will to believe in the holiness of the cause, for everything which went to prove that the enemy alone had wanted war, was the sole enemy of peace, and that to make war on the enemy was really to wish for peace.

There was proof enough and to spare; there always is; all that is needed is to know when to open and shut your eyes … But nevertheless Clerambault was not entirely satisfied. These half-truths, or truths with false tails to them, produced a secret uneasiness in the conscience of this honest man, showing itself in a passionate irritation against the enemy, which grew more and more. On the same lines—like two buckets in a well, one going up as the other goes down—his patriotic enthusiasm grew and drowned the last torments of his mind in a salutary intoxication.

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