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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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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world and we had to shoot it to pieces.
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We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.
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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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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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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it
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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 idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.
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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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The war has ruined us for everything.
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The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.
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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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Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.
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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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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
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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.
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We were all at once terribly alone and alone we must see it through.
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Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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