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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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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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A hospital alone shows what war is.
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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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Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.
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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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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world and we had to shoot it to pieces.
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Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.
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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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Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
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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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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will but they did everything to knock that out of us.
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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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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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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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