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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.
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Nothing is the mirror in which you see 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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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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What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
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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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You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.
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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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Good or ill, life is life you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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A hospital alone shows what war is.
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The things men did or felt they had to do.
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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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My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
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