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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.

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
Writer
Vienna
Austria
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Sometimes
Drowned
Even
Wake
Would
Forgotten
Think
Memory
Thinking
Memories
Sure
Used
Nothing
Sunk

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