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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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But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.
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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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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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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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Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.
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I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.
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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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Good or ill, life is life you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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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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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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I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness--I belong to them and they to me we all share the same fear and the same life...I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me.
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You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.
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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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The things men did or felt they had to do.
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My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
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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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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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