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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.
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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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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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
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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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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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No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.
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The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it
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A hospital alone shows what war is.
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I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a little empty and full of leave-taking and melancholy and waiting.
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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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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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It's all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are out of the front-line. We don't act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.
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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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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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Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.
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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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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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The war has ruined us for everything.
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Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.
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