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Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.

Erich Maria Remarque

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Erich Maria Remarque
Age: 72 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 22
Died: 1970
Died: September 25
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Vienna
Austria
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Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.
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