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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.

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
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Vienna
Austria
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Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.
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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 was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war. - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5
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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 war has ruined us for everything.
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Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
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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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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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(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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We were all at once terribly alone and alone we must see it through.
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On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.
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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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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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