The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.
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About William Faulkner
William Faulkner was a 19th-century American writer and novelist. William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- War — Reflections on conflict, peace, and the human cost of war