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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, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a little empty and full of leave-taking and melancholy and waiting.
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Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
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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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-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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We were all at once terribly alone and alone we must see it through.
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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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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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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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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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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
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Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.
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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 things men did or felt they had to do.
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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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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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Good or ill, life is life you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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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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