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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
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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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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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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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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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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No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.
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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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Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
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It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hour's bombardment unscratched. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
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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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The things men did or felt they had to do.
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We were all at once terribly alone and alone we must see it through.
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Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.
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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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My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
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We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.
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A hospital alone shows what war is.
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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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The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it
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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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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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