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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
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Good or ill, life is life you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
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Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.
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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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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.
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Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
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The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it
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A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.
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We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.
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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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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
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-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.
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Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.
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We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will but they did everything to knock that out of us.
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(Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light honey of blossoms and would not find them and later it would fall asleep on millennial marble, weakened by then, until the grip of the delicate, tenacious feet loosened and it fell, a thin leaf of premature autumn.
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Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
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