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We were all at once terribly alone and alone we must see it through.
Erich Maria Remarque
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Erich Maria Remarque
Age: 72 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 22
Died: 1970
Died: September 25
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Vienna
Austria
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The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.
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To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the whirl of the vortex sucking me slowly, irresistibly, inescapably into itself.
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The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.
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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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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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A hospital alone shows what war is.
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You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.
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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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... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
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For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.
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Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
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-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.
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The things men did or felt they had to do.
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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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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.
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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
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We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are hard to come by. - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 2
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