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In war, I never knew anything beyond what I could see and hear.
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The speaker says that in war, knowledge was limited to immediate sights and sounds. What happened beyond what could be seen or heard remained unknown. The sentence expresses the narrow, uncertain view available in such a situation, without claiming awareness of events outside that direct experience.
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