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The things men did or felt they had to do.

Erich Maria Remarque

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Erich Maria Remarque
Age: 72 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 22
Died: 1970
Died: September 25
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Erich Paul Remark
Erich Maria Remark
Men
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... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world and we had to shoot it to pieces.
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Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
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Good or ill, life is life you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.
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Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.
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We want to live at any price so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.
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It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hour's bombardment unscratched. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
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We were all at once terribly alone and alone we must see it through.
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You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.
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On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.
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Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.
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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.
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The war has ruined us for everything.
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A hospital alone shows what war is.
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You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.
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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.
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