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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.

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
Children
Believe
Men
Forlorn
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Sorrowful
Crude
Superficial
Experienced
Lost

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Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day. - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3
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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.
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Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
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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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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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Good or ill, life is life you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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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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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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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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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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... 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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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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What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
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The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it
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Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.
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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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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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